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The Mekong River flows some 5,000 kilometers from the Himalayas to China s Yunnan province and then to Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia
Dams along Mekong by China threatening farmers and fish in Southeast Asia: Report ANI | Updated: Apr 08, 2021 22:42 IST
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], April 8 (ANI): China s construction of large hydropower dams along the river to feed country s growing energy needs is causing problems downriver having devastating impacts on water availability and the fertile soil that feeds hundreds of millions of people in Southeast Asia.
The Mekong River flows some 5,000 kilometers from the Himalayas to China s Yunnan province and then to Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia and then reaches to sea through Vietnam s Mekong Delta.
Dams along Mekong by China threatening farmers: report
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Earlier this week, the government of Laos and a majority Chinese-owned company signed a 25-year concession agreement that allows the company to build and manage a large part of the country’s power grid.
According to a report by Radio Free Asia’s Lao service, the company, Electricite du Laos Transmission Company Ltd. (EDLT), will invest $2 billion in the Lao power grid and will manage large parts of it for a period of 25 years, after which they will be ceded to the Lao government.
EDLT was created last September as a joint venture between the state power company Electricite du Laos (EDL) and the China Southern Power Grid Company, in which China Southern held a majority of shares. The company was formed after the Lao government found itself swamped by rising debt levels amid the economic downturn of the COVID-19 pandemic.