Mekong Utility Watch News

Asian giant shares dam information as U.S. takes advantage of China's poor reputation in Southeast Asia.  read more »

Plans to build hydropower dams on the upper Mekong will turn Southeast Asia's longest waterway into a "Chinese river", the regional head of the US-based Stimson Centre has warned.  read more »

Dams and infrastructure development along Asia’s Mekong River threaten the survival of some of the world’s largest freshwater fish species, including the giant freshwater stingray and the Mekong giant catfish, WWF said.  read more »

Mekong River communities are facing a double threat: the perils of upstream dams in China and possibility of twelve new downstream.  read more »

A letter from the Save the Mekong Coalition to the Mekong River Commission.  read more »

An unusually long dry season, along with deforestation, pollution and dam-building, leaves farmers struggling. In some areas, people cannot even wash their hair regularly.  read more »

The Xiaowan dam in the hills of Yunnan province is one of eight hydroelectric projects that will bring China's industrial revolution to the impoverished region. It is by far the biggest of the four dams built so far that when done this year will be the biggest arch dam in the world.

But not all of the water is China's. The downstream half of the 2,700-mile-long river winds through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, where it is known as the Mekong.  read more »

Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Song Tao told participants in the Mekong River Council Summit in Hua Hin, Thailand on April 5 that China is willing to promote cooperation with downstream countries in mitigating droughts and floods, sharing hydrographic technology and information, exchange and training of hydrographic experts, etc.  read more »

Countries bordering the Mekong River have let the criticism flow unimpeded over China's hydroelectric power expansion.  read more »

Critics slam China’s hegemonic behavior in the Greater Mekong Sub-region  read more »