BANGKOK, April 13 (Reuters) – China’s Mekong River dams held back large amounts of water during a damaging drought in downstream countries last year despite China having higher-than-average water ...

On December 25, the People’s Republic of China approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung ...

That is enough to meet the needs of more than 300m people and more than triple the capacity of the Three Gorges dam, which is ...

Shifting monsoonal climate patterns that affect the availability of water in the Mekong River Basin are raising questions among experts about the sustainability of hydropower as a long-term energy ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project has raised concerns it will cause water shortages downstream in India, where it is a ...

The dam, the first to span the Mekong itself, will generate more electricity than Egypt’s Aswan Dam. Despite the solid advances, however, the Mekong plan’s future is in doubt. The immediate ...

such as the Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas). Other speakers questioned the need for EGAT to commit to purchasing power from the dam, given the country’s excessive oversupply of ...

"We've certainly seen in many places in the Indo-Pacific that upstream dams that the Chinese have created, including in the Mekong region, can have really potentially damaging environmental but ...

India concerned over China's approval of construction of hydropower dam in Yarlung Zangbo river. Read more at ...

Concerns were raised at a forum yesterday over the likelihood of the proposed construction of the Sanakham hydropower project ...

Laos has completed two dams on the Mekong River, the 1,285-megawatt Xayaburi Dam and the 260-megawatt Don Sahong Dam last year, despite objections by environmental groups.