Transcript This is Eileen Wray-McCann for Circle of Blue. And this is What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water, made possible by support from people like you. In Southeast Asia, the Mekong River Commission said that water levels in the Mekong have fallen because Chinese dams upstream are limiting outflows. The river turned blue along the Thai-Laos border. That color shift signals shallow water that is affecting fish migration, farming, and barge transport. The river flow is also lessened because of reduced rainfall and water held in other dams on the Lower Mekong. Reuters reports that the river commission called for China to share its water release plans so that downstream countries could prepare for changes in the Mekong. China agreed last year to share reservoir and rainfall data with its neighbors.