The combination of drought and the construction of dams in China, and now in Laos, has created a new situation in the Mekong Valley, says Milton ...
An unusually long period of drought brought water levels to some of the lowest measurements in recent years.There are fears that the drought will have a particularly negative effect on the Tonle Sap River, connecting the Mekong to Cambodia’s Great Lake and which plays a key role in the maturing of the fish stocks on which population of the Lower Mekong Basin depends.
These were compounded by unannounced water releases from China’s Jinghong dam in southern Yunnan in early July that flooded paddy fields in both Laos and Thailand.But there seems little doubt that the combination of drought and the construction of dams in China, and now in Laos, have created a new situation.
So, on the one hand, a release of water last month took place without proper warning, while on the other a notification that water will be held back are both events over which downstream populations have no control.
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