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The Lower Mekong Dams Factsheet Text

The governments of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are planning to build eleven large hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong River. If built, these dams would destroy the river’s rich biodiversity and threaten the food security of millions of people.

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Document type Archived web content
Language of document
  • English
Topics
  • Biodiversity
  • Food security
  • Hydropower dams
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Cambodia
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand
  • Viet Nam
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Author (corporate) International Rivers
Publication date 2013
Date uploaded March 14, 2018, 03:09 (UTC)
Date modified March 19, 2018, 06:06 (UTC)