The Saga of Mekong Tributary Dams | Bangkok Tribune
2022年1月10日 · One of the most controversial water development initiatives, the Kong-Chi-Mun project, aimed to pump water from the Mekong and key tributaries to irrigate Isaan. More than 18 billion baht was allocated to develop at least 14 dams and irrigation systems in the first phase on the Mun and Chi River systems.
Sluice gates to prevent salinity in Mekong tributary
The government has approved the construction of six sluice gates on a tributary of the Mekong River to help keep out saltwater and store freshwater. The Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development and Planning-Investment have green-lighted a proposal by Tien Giang Province to build them on the Tien River in Chau Thanh and Cai Lay districts ...
(PDF) Does the community support the sluice gates in response to ...
2023年8月16日 · Purpose- In response to salinity intrusion in Mekong Delta, infrastructure such as coastal sea dykes and sluice gates have been identified as a viable strategy for salinity intrusion risk...
Risk of compound flooding substantially increases in the future Mekong …
2024年10月24日 · Results show that fluvial flooding in the Mekong River delta, coinciding with a storm tide at the coast, brings the effects of compound flooding to central regions of the Vietnamese lower delta, where the highly engineered network of dykes, flood gates, and weirs can efficiently divert floodwaters above the 0.5 m (summer dykes) to ∼ 4 m ...
In Awe of the Mekong Delta's Majestic Sluice Gates
2024年7月23日 · Sluice gates. From a distance, the enormous, brutalist-esque cement towers rising along a bridge spanning the imposing Cái Lớn River in Kiên Giang Province resemble structures in a sci-fi novel, but they are in fact part of Vietnam’s largest …
Long-term alterations of flow regimes of the Mekong River and ...
2020年12月1日 · The Mekong basin, where climate change and anthropogenic interventions (e.g., dams, sand mining, and sluice gates) have intensified in the recent decades affecting the pristine flow regime and salinity intrusion.
The Impacts of Hydropower Dams in the Mekong River Basin: …
The Mekong River, well known for its aquatic biodiversity, is important to the social, physical, and economic health of millions living in China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. This paper explores the social and environmental impacts of several Mekong basin hydropower dams and groupings of dams and the geographies of their impacts.
Mekong River Delta - SpringerLink
Mekong River (MR) is the 12th longest river in the world with a total length of 4800 km (Li et al., 2017). From its source in the Tibetan Plateau, MR flows across six different countries, namely China, Myanmar, Laos People’s Democratic Republic (Laos PDR), Thailand, Cambodia and finally Vietnam before draining into the South China Sea (Fig. 1 ).
Mekong - Wikipedia
The Mekong or Mekong River is a transboundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia [1] with an estimated length of 4,909 km (3,050 mi) [1] and a drainage area of 795,000 km 2 (307,000 sq mi), discharging 475 km 3 (114 cu mi) of water annually. [2]
Mekong Dam Monitor 2024 Progress Report • Stimson Center
2024年10月9日 · The Mekong Dam Monitor (MDM) uses satellite imagery and remote sensing data to understand how the operations of the 60 largest dams in the Mekong Basin alter the river’s natural resources and reduce the ecological and social functions of core natural features such as the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia, the world’s largest inland fishery.