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Low level of Mekong raises concerns over water management
03/14/2010

The Mekong River, South-East Asia's longest waterway, is at its lowest level in 50 years, raising questions about who is to blame - mankind or Mother Nature - for the region's diminishing water supply. The 4,350-kilometre-long river originates in southern China and meanders through Laos and Thailand into Cambodia, where it feeds Tongle Sap Lake before reaching southern Vietnam and emptying into the South China Sea.  read more »

Chinese dams blamed for Mekong’s dwindling flows and fish stocks
Jonathan Manthorpe
03/14/2010

Something is wrong with the mighty Mekong River, which frames the lives of 250 million people in six countries of Southeast Asia through which it flows and on which 60 million people depend directly for their livelihoods.

But there are widely differing views on why the Mekong has shrunk to its lowest levels in 20 years, with only half its normal volume in some places, so that vital fish migrations have been disturbed and river shipping had to be halted.  read more »

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Ethiopia aid diverted for rebel arms in 1980s: BBC
03/04/2010

Millions of dollars of international aid for victims of the mid-1980s famine in Ethiopia was diverted to rebels to buy weapons in the African country, a BBC investigation reported Wednesday.  read more »

Three Gorges Probe

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The Three Gorges reservoir has become a danger
Yang Chuanmin
03/11/2010

The large-scale construction that accompanied the building of the Three Gorges dam and its reservoir has increased the number of landslides―both new and reactivated―in the surrounding area. County seats recently built on land near the reservoir are now particularly prone to landslides. Local schools and residential buildings are already suffering cracked foundations and walls.  read more »

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Ethiopia prepares case for megahydropower project funding

John Njiraini
02/05/2010

The Ethiopian government is preparing its case to attempt to convince the World Bank to fund a mega- hydropower project in the Horn of Africa country.  read more »

Mekong Utility Watch

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Low level of Mekong raises concerns over water management
03/14/2010

The Mekong River, South-East Asia's longest waterway, is at its lowest level in 50 years, raising questions about who is to blame - mankind or Mother Nature - for the region's diminishing water supply. The 4,350-kilometre-long river originates in southern China and meanders through Laos and Thailand into Cambodia, where it feeds Tongle Sap Lake before reaching southern Vietnam and emptying into the South China Sea.  read more »