BANGKOK, April 3 (TNA) - Over 250 members of a nature and cultural conservation NGO on the Mekong River region submitted a letter to the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok seeking its action and acceptance of responsibility for the ongoing record-low Mekong water level.Network representatives, including the Khmer Lake and Vietnam River Network, joined a public forum Friday on fair distribution on Mekong River water usage, in parallel with the now proceeding Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit at Hua Hin, in order to jointly deal with the current Mekong region water shortgages.
Niwat Roykaew, a top member of the Chiang Khong Conservation Group in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, said the letter to the embassy included their request that China must stop building all dams and exploding islets along Mekong River. The network also asked for China’s support in setting up a Mekong committee run by a civil society group, and it must lead cooperation with other nations to solve problems after its four dams have affected the ecological system and lives dependent on the river.
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