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Damming the Mekong

Damming the Mekong is a problem that will affect most of south-east Asia, and Australia in big way. I am apposing this idea, because it will lead other countries such as Laos in severe poverty, as there will be near to no water supply running through the country.

In southern china it has been noted that most places suffer from power shortages, this hydroelectric dam was going to be an opportunity for china to increase its living conditions, and well being across most of southern china. After china completed its first dam on the Mekong, the 1500 megawatt (MW) Manwan dam, it realized that it could make an eight dam cascade. This idea was first proposed in the seventies, and it is calculated that with completion of these dams, it would see more than 68,000 people evicted and 6,500 hectares of farm land destroyed.

China is obviously hoping to bring big businesses to its land in southern china, as in 1988, after china had built its Etan dam, it could only......

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