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Dams threaten Mekong Basin food supply
Posted by Inter Press Service: Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau on June 23rd, 2013
Inter Press Service: The future of food security in the Mekong region lies at a crossroads, as several development ventures, including the Xayaburi Hydropower Project, threaten to alter fish migration routes, disrupt the flow of sediments and nutrients downstream, and endanger millions whose livelihoods depend on the Mekong River basin`s resources. Running through China, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Laos, Thailand and Cambodia to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, this is Asia`s seventh longest transboundary river. An estimated...