“You have to in some sense look at the Mekong as a game board, one where you can decide to put a dam here and not there and by doing so maintain the ecological functioning of the whole river basin.

Electronic tagging has revealed crucial Mekong fish corridors at risk of being severed by upcoming dam projects.

These giant catfish were once plentiful throughout the Mekong basin ... left in the Mekong River. Overfishing is the primary cause of the giant catfish’s decline, but damming of Mekong ...

“Nothing has changed for the better for the Xayaburi dam project,” said Dr Meng. “A failure to address the uncertainties with this project could have dire consequences for the livelihoods of millions ...

"China has constructed 11 mega dams only on the Mekong river ... Ranbir Singh pointed out that the Brahmaputra Basin is the only water-surplus river basin in India with the rest being water ...