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Interview with Anoulak Kittikhoun, Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat and new IFGR member       What is the hydrological situation in the Mekong basin right now? The region has gone through two years of severe drought. What is at stake? For the second consecutive year, the Lower […]

  Following directly after the health crisis caused by the coronavirus, China was faced with another disaster, during the rainy season. Repeated and exceptionally heavy rains caused floods in the basins of the Yangtse (the Blue River) and the Yellow River. Other Asian countries were also hit.   As early as June, torrential rain fell […]

Laos intends to build a new dam on the Mekong that will be operated by China, despite the criticisms of ecologists and the local population, who denounce its harmful impact on the environment and the lack of consultation.   A new project for a huge development program In recent years, the Laotian government has implemented […]

A severe drought is expected in Cambodia and several countries of the Mekong basin until January, according to the  Mekong River Commission (MRC), the intergovernmental institution that ensures the joint management of the river and its water. The river has reached its lowest level in the last sixty years, and its discharge has been exceptionally low since […]

The tragedy occurred on 23 July in the middle of the monsoon: a dike of the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydroelectric complex, built on a tributary of the Mekong in southeast Laos (due for commissioning in 2019), collapsed, releasing hundreds of million m3 of water. Torrents of muddy water submerged villages and killed more than a […]

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