The Mekong River is under threat. The governments of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand are planning eleven big hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s mainstream. If built, the dams would block major fish migrations and disrupt this vitally important river, placing at risk millions of people who depend upon the Mekong for their food security and income.
List of mainstream dams
[to be updated]
Reports, Briefings and Websites
- Visit International Rivers Mekong Mainstream Dams webpage
- Visit Living Rivers Siam Lower Mekong Dams webpage
- Visit Mekong Watch’s Mekong Mainstream Dams webpage
- Visit Oxfam Australia’s Mekong Mainstream Dams webpage
- Visit TERRA’s Lower Mekong Mainstream Dams webpage
- Visit International Rivers Sambor Dam webpage
- Visit International Rivers Don Sahong Dam webpage
- Visit International Rivers China Southern Power Grid Company webpage
- Visit International Rivers Sinohydro webpage
- Mainstream Dams: An Engineers Dream, a Fishers Curse. By Gary Lee. Watershed, Vol. 12 No. 3, November 2008
- Letter sent to China Souther Power Grid about Sambor Dam by International Rivers, Burma Rivers Network, and Rivers Coalition of Cambodia, April 2008 [English] [Chinese]
- Don Sahong Dam Fact Sheet, International Rivers and Rivers Coalition of Cambodia, September 2008 [English] [Khmer] [Thai]
- Cambodia’s Hydropower Development and China’s Involvement, International Rivers and the Rivers Coalition of Cambodia, January 2008. English with Khmer Executive Summary
- The Don Sahong Dam and Mekong Fisheries, 2007, World Fish Center [English] [Khmer] [Lao]
- Don Sahong dam, Khone Falls, southern Lao PDR TERRA Briefing October 2007
- Background to the Mekong mainstream dams TERRA September 2007
- Sambor dam, Kratie province, Cambodia TERRA Briefing September 2007
- Xayabouri and Pak Lay dams, Xayabouri province, Lao PDR TERRA Briefing August 2007
- Mainstream Dams Threaten the Mother of all Rivers, by Shannon Lawrence and Carl Middleton, World Rivers Review (Vol 22, No 2), June 2007