University of Southampton

Unsustainable sand mining is threatening lives along the Mekong River in Cambodia

15 January 2020
University of Southampton
Disasters / Rivers and lakes
Mekong river / sand dredging / sand mining

Now new research, as part of a project led by University of Southampton, has shown sand mining is causing river beds to lower, leading to riverbank instability and increasing the likelihood of dangerous river bank collapse, damaging infrastructure and housing and putting lives at risk. The ...

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https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/01/mekong-river-sand.page

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