Villagers work to protect the water and key wetlands in Bueng Khong Long reservoir

By THE SUNDAY NATION

 

Children play at Bueng Khong Long reservoir in the northeastern province of Bueng Kan.

 

VILLAGES around Bueng Khong Long reservoir in Bueng Kan province in the far Northeast got together recently to protect their waters and the lake’s internationally important wetlands. Their water-management plan has become an inspiring model of how communities can successfully balance their own needs and those of nature.

 

Faced with falling water levels in the lake, rising use of water for irrigation and climate change, people around Bueng Khong Long came together to manage how the lake’s water is used. With aid from WWF, Bueng Khong Long’s water-management committee was formed in 2014 to bring together representatives of all 19 villages to fairly and sustainably distribute water usage so everybody – upstream and downstream villages, plus the wetlands in between – get the water they need.

 

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