Dams, climate plague Mekong

10 September 2012
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Villagers in Kratie province have long feared the proposed Sambor hydroelectric dam and the impact it could have on their subsistence fishing and riverbank agriculture. According to Resilience on the Mekong: A Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment in North-East Cambodia, a report released by the World Wildlife Foundation on Friday, those concerns are more than warranted. The report focuses on a 56 linear-kilometre stretch of the Mekong, between Stung Treng and Kratie provinces, known as the Mekong Flooded Forest. This stretch of river, the report says, has “some of the most biologically significant habitats along the Mekong”. The Sambor dam is proposed to be constructed about 20 kilometres away...

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