As monsoon rains saturate South and Southeast Asia, many rivers have risen in spate, and it is easy at this time of plenty, to forget that all Asia’s great rivers originating in the Himalayas are in trouble as the snow and ice at their sources shrink as the planet warms, creating the risk both of droughts and sudden floods.
In this episode, host Nirmal Ghosh speaks to Senior Fellow and co-lead of the Mekong Dam Monitor at the Stimson Center Brian Eyler and Thailand-based Campaigns Director for Thailand and Myanmar of International Rivers Pianporn Deetes.
In Cambodia, it creates Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, the Tonle Sap, as its waters back up before it empties into the sea through a vast delta in Vietnam. Though a 1995 Mekong Agreement between Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam focused on sustainable development and management and balancing needs and rights, over 700 dams have been built or are under construction on the tributaries of the Mekong river, Mr Eyler said.
Written into the rules of the 1995 Mekong Agreement are water flow regimes, which require minimum flows during the wet season to allow the Tonle Sap lake - the world’s most productive freshwater fishery - to expand, Mr Eyler explained.
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