Despite this, construction has proceeded without consultation with China’s downstream neighbors and without an assessment of the dams’ likely impacts on the river and its people. What’s more, there are likely to be up to seven more dams built even farther upstream, near the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site.
Within China, communities resettled by the Manwan and Dachaoshan dams have suffered from lack of adequate compensation, problems with food security and increased incidence of disease. While
steps have been taken to fix these problems, much more must be done to ensure that people’s livelihoods are restored.
The
Mekong River cruises, known as the Lancang in China, is the heart and soul
of mainland Southeast Asia. Over 60 million people depend on the river
and its tributaries for food, water, transport and many other aspects of
their daily lives. The river supports one of the world’s most diverse
fisheries, second only to Brazil’s Amazon River.
China’s
construction of dams and a navigation channel along the upper reaches of
the Mekong threatens this complex ecosystem. Seven megadams have
already been built, and over 20 more are under construction or being
planned in Yunnan, Tibet and Qinghai (see map). The scheme will
drastically change the river’s natural flood-drought cycle and block the
transport of sediment, affecting ecosystems and the livelihoods of
millions living downstream in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and
Vietnam. Impacts to water levels and fisheries have already been
recorded along the Thai-Lao border.
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