But the project comes shrouded in uncertainty, including its main purpose -- whether for shipping or irrigation -- who will fund it, and how it will affect the flow of the Mekong -- one of the ...

Project planned for an ecologically fragile area in Tibet near contested border with India, raising environmental, security ...

The upstream dams would convert more than half the lower Mekong into reservoirs, completely altering its flow. They’d trap much of the nutrient-rich sediment that now fertilizes delta fields and ...

President Hun Sen claimed on social media platform X that this means there would be “no impact on the flow of the Mekong River.” But blueprints show the canal will connect to the Mekong’s ...

found that an acute drought in the lower Mekong countries in 2019 was worsened by restricted water flow from China’s dams. Hydraulic engineering professor Tian Fuqiang of Tsinghua University ...

Despite Poonyawee’s cleanup efforts, waste continues to flow down the Ruak, reaching the Mekong River less than a kilometer away from the elephants in the Golden Triangle region encompassing ...

While the 3S rivers make up 10 percent of the Mekong watershed, they provide as much as 25 percent of the river’s flow and sediment load, and support 40 percent of the nearly 1,000 species of fish ...