The recurrent threat of both flooding and drought looms large over many parts of the Mekong region. This variability is natural but is increasing due to climate change. Their destructive effects can be either relieved or compounded depending on the way dams are operated.
Fellows from the Greater Mekong capacity building programs in the Mekong, Red, and Salween river basins have produced a first round of blogs, describing their research projects to date.
Laos has many foreign land concessions, which have resulted in farmers losing their land and traditional livelihood activities. What are some of the coping mechanisms they employ to deal with these changes?
A new book, compiled from research done by WorldFish, aims to provide planning tools for policy makers and practitioners to support the sustainable development of dams in the Mekong River basin.
The 2015 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy was held from Oct. 21-23 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Here's a short video that encapsulates the event.
An interview with Dr. Oliver Springate-Baginski, lecturer at the University of East Anglia and lead on a WLE Greater Mekong project based in Kachin state, Myanmar.
A project to gather data on the country’s freshwater resources and the management of its river flows will take three years, workshop participants heard on June 16. U Bo Ni, director of the Watershed Management Division in the Ministry of Environment Conservation and Forestry, said the data collection would be carried out by local and foreign experts in collaboration with the ministry, concluding in 2018.
