It’s water that’s been stored behind a dam.” River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand ...

not Southeast Asia, became the first to dam the main stem of the river. ThailandThe hunger for electricity in Thailand is driving dam construction on the lower Mekong in Laos and Cambodia.

By Anton L. Delgado The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors ...

A year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor shows the extent of the impact on Southeast Asia's longest river. A conversation with Brian Eyler of the Stimson Center.

Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...