Ho San stands next to the wooden boat he calls home and pointed to the exposed river bank surrounding Chroy Changvar, the riparian peninsula where the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers converge in Phnom ...

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 ...

Numerous sand mining barges dot the Mekong mid-river and along its banks. Riverbed sand mining significantly intensifies saltwater intrusion and drought in two ways. First, sand mining deepens the ...

“River levels throughout the basin are now about one meter higher than normal ... “While the headwaters of the Mekong in China are excessively wet, most of the lower Mekong region is experiencing ...

A weekslong drought across parts of southeast Asia ... according to the intergovernmental agency Mekong River Commission. While Vietnam has built significant infrastructure to combat increasingly ...

The Mekong River in Thailand’s northern Chiang Khong ... found that an acute drought in the lower Mekong countries in 2019 was worsened by restricted water flow from China’s dams.

The Mekong has changed. This is our mother river but we have lost so much,' Thai environmental activist Niwat lamented. 'Everywhere the people said the drought and the dams had caused the problems.' ...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) and the Government of Japan have signed an agreement to support the implementation of the “Project for Strengthening Flood and Drought Risk Management in the Lower ...

The Mekong River flows from China through Myanmar ... floodwater from flowing downstream to Vietnam. That could worsen drought in Vietnam's rice bowl and Cambodia's floodplains, an area stretching ...

Mekong's Forgotten Fishes, a new report published by WWF and Global Water Center, in tandem with 24 other local, regional and global Mekong-based organizations, details the extraordinary variety of ...