{Education} Infographic: Laos approves Mekong River dam
- Laos – the long, skinny Asian country squashed between Vietnam to the
right and Thailand to the left – has given the go-ahead for the
construction of a massive dam on the Mekong River.
- Laos plans to harness
the power of the river to generate electricity, which in turn it can
sell to its neighbours.
- The problem is that those same neighbours are already unhappy about
the potential disruption the dam might cause to their fishing and rice
production.
- The Mekong snakes hundreds of miles all the way from China,
through Laos, into Cambodia and out to the sea, with close to 60 million
people reliant on the Mekong for their way of life. Not to mention the
critically endangered giant catfish. That’s one freakin’ big catfish.
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