geovalin Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 KOH CHIVANG, Cambodia: As night falls over his floating village, fisherman Leng Vann puffs on a cigarette and heaves a sigh for Tonle Sap, the great inland lake that has sustained Cambodia for centuries. More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world's largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stocks dwindled because of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong. Tonle Sap was once renowned for its abundance of fish and wildlife - 43-year-old Leng Vann recalls catching hundreds of kilos a day in his nets. His house, which floats on the lake, sits 5m lower than it should in mid-October, at the end of the rainy season, and when he draws his net from the waters, it is empty. read more https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/cambodia-tonle-sap-lake-peril-mekong-river-dams-climate-change-13815870 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bangyai Posted December 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2020 Another big thank you to China. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuttodd Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Translation, "The Chinese shut the water off" 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardinalblue Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Dumb <deleted> - maybe all those years of unlimited net fishing had a consequence like no future fish... it’s called resource management. Money doesn’t grow on trees and neither do fish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burma Bill Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Maybe a glimmer of hope (reference The Diplomat):- December 14, 2020 e Jinghong Dam, the southernmost of China’s cascade of 11 dams on the Lancang (Mekong) River. As the Mekong River becomes the focus of renewed geopolitical rivalries, a new U.S.-funded river monitoring platform aims to shed light on controversial Chinese dam-building activities on the river’s upper reaches. The Mekong Dam Monitor, which was officially announced on December 14, will employ remote sensing and data from cloud-piercing satellites to track water levels in China’s dams, which have been accused of withholding water from downstream nations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Tracy Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Control. China wins. Anyone upstream of China? "The Mekong Dam Monitor, which was officially announced on December 14, will employ remote sensing and data from cloud-piercing satellites to track water levels in China’s dams, which have been accused of withholding water from downstream nations." And then what? Nothing will happen, guaranteed. The next wars will be about water. Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 The conservative modelling of the Tibetan glaciers are saying the flows from them to the Mekong and Ganges will be halved due to climate change by 2050, and that's without any Chinese intervention in the form of dams. A billion people depend on water from those two rivers. China and India have been at loggerheads for decades, water could see them in all-out conflict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 3 hours ago, cardinalblue said: Dumb <deleted> - maybe all those years of unlimited net fishing had a consequence like no future fish... it’s called resource management. Money doesn’t grow on trees and neither do fish No water means no fish. How difficult is that to work out? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 when is there going to be some recognition of the fact the human population levels and the waste and contamination of natural reserve in many forms is way out of step ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pique Dard Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 global warming and climate change are serious stuff, not just rubbish according to people like trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangyai Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 On 12/22/2020 at 8:54 PM, Dumbastheycome said: when is there going to be some recognition of the fact the human population levels and the waste and contamination of natural reserve in many forms is way out of step ? When the shooting starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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