Oct 18, 2010
DPA
Bangkok - Environmentalists on Monday welcomed a recommendation by the Mekong River Commission to postpone the construction of 11 hydropower dams on the river by 10 years.
The Vientiane-based commission recently published a 200-page report outlining its opposition to the dams on the lower Mekong, South-east Asia's longest waterway that courses through China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Although China has already built four hydropower dams on the Upper Mekong, no dams have yet been constructed on the lower mainstream of the river.
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