Lowy Institute Paper: Recent submissions

The Mekong plays a vital role in the countries of the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB): Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. (Burma is not within the basin). Despite the environmental costs of China’s completed dams and the river clearances to aid navigation being limited so far, this will change once China has five dams in operation. And the costs exacted by those dams will be magnified if the proposed ...