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Home » Water Management

Tag: Water Management

Encountering Cambodia’s biggest irrigation project, but where’s the irrigation?

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit October 11, 2018

Cambodia’s largest and most costly irrigation scheme has failed to irrigate a single hectare, but plans are afoot to double down with an even more expensive project.

The Cambodian People’s Party and a “proof of concept” irrigation scheme

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit October 2, 2018March 25, 2021

Cambodia’s dominant political network has infiltrated down to the local level through a hydraulic control paradigm, unwittingly aided and abetted by international development assistance.

Laos’ Pak Lay Dam Impact Assessment ‘Plagiarized’

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit September 27, 2018

The MRC in a statement confirmed that parts of the assessment “appear to be similar to those of the Pak Beng project.”

Rising seas threaten Vietnam’s top rice producer

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit September 26, 2018

Because of climate change, Vietnam’s Kien Giang province is struggling to maintain its place as the country’s biggest rice producer, a distinction it has held for nearly two decades.

Flood victim assistance efforts considered in depth

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit September 25, 2018

Lao officials yesterday met with development partner bodies to hold a brainstorming session on ways to best assist flooding victims nationwide and estimate damages and losses caused by recent disasters across the country.

Weather beating for rice production

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit September 25, 2018

Swathes of paddy fields across the Mekong Delta in Lao PDR, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar were inundated by the flood of water from both heavy rains and burst dams. Damaged reduced production up to 30 percent.

Activists push for Pak Lay Dam studies

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit September 24, 2018

The collapse of Xe Pian Xe Namnoy Hydropower Dam in July prompted environmental activists to urge new studies on the Pak Lay project during the MRC’s 5th Regional Stakeholder Forum which began on Thursday.

As sand mining grows, Asia’s deltas are sinking, water experts warn

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit September 24, 2018

The Mekong delta is home to 17 million people, a major source of rice for the region and it underpins a quarter of Vietnam’s GDP – yet most of it is sinking.

Regional CSOs Boycott Mekong River Forum Over Opposition to Lao Dam

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit September 23, 2018

Thai and Cambodian civil society organizations rejected an invitation from the Lao government to attend a regional stakeholder forum on the Pak Lay dam, saying the process is not transparent.

Workshop held for Lao hydropower plant

By Nantiya Tangwisutijit September 19, 2018

The Mekong River Commission organised a consultation workshop in HCM City yesterday for the Pak Lay hydropower project proposed on the Mekong’s mainstream in Xayaburi Province in north-western Laos.

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