Aquaculture in the Mekong Delta
How will hydropower development impact Vietnam’s USD2bn/year aquaculture business? Raising catfish in ponds is something the Delta has done for centuries but these days, it’s a big export business,...
View ArticleDykes, Rice, and Floods in the Mekong Delta
Local dyke building in the An Giang Province of the Mekong Delta has proven controversial. Historically, this area was a natural depression, acting like a huge sponge that would hold flood waters of...
View ArticleA River to Lakes in the Mekong Delta
Besides climate change, upstream dam building presents potentially large environmental problems. Studies indicate that if all planned mainstream Mekong dams are built, the lower Mekong will be...
View ArticleWild Caught Fish in the Mekong Delta
Many factors affect the highly productive fishery on the Van Nao, a lateral branch connecting the two main branches of the Mekong River as it fans out into the Delta. Mr Vu Vi An, a researcher at...
View ArticleA River and Its Dams
More than 140 dams are currently planned, under construction or commissioned for different rivers in the Mekong Basin. If constructed, this will radically alter the basin’s hydrology, its ecology and,...
View ArticleLife on the Lower Sesan
Just south of Laos, in the northeast corner of Cambodia, the Mekong’s most important tributary river system can be found. Known as the “3S” river basin, it is made up of the Sesan, Sekong and Srepok...
View ArticleBiodiversity on the Mekong – from Luang Prabang to Vientiane
The Mekong River has more species of fish than anywhere else in the world except the Amazon. More than 60 million people depend on this living supermarket for their livelihoods. Follow a team of...
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Photovoice: Stories from Đông Thắng Villagers
Click on each image to see full size. This concept of villagers telling their own stories, called photovoice, is being used as a means to better represent and empower communities across the world....
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ĐỐI THOẠI VỚI DÒNG SÔNG
“Nhà cháu nhỏ lắm, phía sau có nhiều cọc chống đỡ để lấn bờ kênh. Nhà cháu không thơm như nhà các bạn mà lúc nào cũng nồng nặc mùi rác thải, xác động vật thối nữa. Chị em cháu hay bị tả và các bệnh...
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Câu chuyện Mê Công: Mùa nước nổi không về
Mùa nuớc nổi không về là một thiệt thòi lớn cho những nguời dân sống dựa vào dòng sông như gia đình ông Sáu Dũng. Hiện tuợng El Nino được đánh giá là có ảnh hưởng mạnh nhất trong vòng 60 năm qua đang...
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