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Blocking a Bloodline: Indigenous Communities along the Tanintharyi River Fear the Impacts of Large Scale Dams
There are a total of 76 villages, 6,118 households and 32,008 people living directly along the Tanintharyi River, who depend on it as a vital source of food security, water,...
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Impacts of Mainstream Hydropower Dams on Fisheries and Agriculture in Lower Mekong Basin
This paper, however, discusses the fishery and agricultural sectors of the LMB and focuses on the downstream floodplains of Cambodia and Vietnam. The dam construction has caused...
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Laos’ hydropower generation capacity to jump almost four fold 2020
This media article reports about the Laos' hydropower and its plan for the future.
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Water Grabbing in the Mekong Basin – An Analysis of the Winners and Losers of Thailand’s Hydropower Development in Lao PDR
This paper examines how powerful state and private actors from within Thailand and Lao PDR mobilise power to control the benefits from hydropower while the social and...
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Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests
This article reviews the catastrophic impacts of dam collapse in the Southern Laos in July 2018 which results in deaths, devastated communities, forced thousands to flee and...
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The Beautiful Rivers—And the Dammed
This is a news feature on energy trends in the world. It shows the potential of other energy sources other than hydropowers that usually comes with the risks of undesired...
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Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos: a very major landslide in December
This article features a potential disaster, a land slide, after the construction of Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos.
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Development or Destruction? The Human Rights Impacts of Hydropower Development on Villagers in Southeast Myanmar
Myanmar needs to acknowledge and address a number of salient concerns if it going to use hydropower to meet its future electricity needs. Most of Myanmar’s abundant hydropower...
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Nam Theun 2 Project Overview
The page offers an overview of Nam Theun 2 hydro-power project as of 2017, along with every stage of project updates.
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Dead in the Water: Global Lessons from the World Bank's model Hydropower project in Laos
In June 2018, the University of Wisconsin Press published a new book about the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos. The books findings relate to issues of environmental...
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Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development
Oxfam Mekong Regional Water Governance program developed Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) manual Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development....
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Final Report: Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector
The Myanmar hydropower sector, in the early stages of development, has the opportunity to develop sustainably by balancing electricity generation with environmental and social...
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China’s Investments in Hydropower in the Mekong Region: The Kamchay Hydropower Dam, Kampot, Cambodia
This paper has two main areas of focus, the first deals with the background of the Kamchay project, including Cambodia’s motivation for developing its hydropower capacities, and...
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Laos to build Don Sahong dam (thanks to Chinese help)
The Laotian government officially announces the construction of the dam. Once completed, it will likely affect the lives of at least 60 million people, damaging crops and...
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Regulatory Shortcomings Open the Way to More Dams on the Mekong
Plans for more dams along the Mekong are causing concern among environmentalists and pressure groups. But the body tasked with overseeing such projects has limited powers to...
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Sustainable Hydropower Master Plan for the Xe Kong Basin Lao PDR
The Master Plan was developed by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) and a team of international experts in full collaboration with the Government of Lao PDR (GoL). The...
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ការពិនិត្យលើវិស័យជាតិ ឆ្នាំ២០០៣៖ ថាមពលវារីអគ្គិសនី
ប្រទេសកម្ពុជា គឺជាប្រទេសមួយដែលសំបូរទៅដោយធនធានទឹក បើធៀបទៅចំណោមប្រទេសជាច្រើន នៅតំបន់អាស៊ីអាគ្នេយ៍។ យោងតាមការសិក្សាបឋមថ្មីមួយ សក្តានុពលសរុបនៃទំនប់វ...
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Exec Summary - Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector
မှနြှာန ိုငငြံ ရအောားလွှပစြဈထိုတလြိုပရြေားကဏျဍသညြ ှှံှေ့ပှ ှုားရေားအရကာငအြထညရြှာြှှု ကနဦားအဆငြ့တြှငသြာ ရှ ရန ရသားသညြ့အြတှကြ လွှပစြဈထိုတလြိုပြှှုက ို ပတဝြနြားက ငြ နှငြ့ြ...
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Tragic Trade-offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong
The factsheet summarizes key findings and recommendations of the Council Study in relation to hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin. The findings of the Council Study...
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ការដាក់ឱ្យដំណើរការទំនប់វារីអគ្គិសនីសេសានក្រោម២
អត្ថបទពីទីស្តីការគណៈរដ្ឋមន្ត្រីអំពី នាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រីនៃប្រទេសកម្ពុជាបានអញ្ជើញសម្ពោធទំនប់វារីអគ្គិសនីសេសានក្រោម២ នៅខេត្តស្ទឹងត្រែង។