Damming The Mekong River: Economic Boon Or Environmental Mistake?
Michael Sullivan/NPR It’s 9 a.m. and the Mekong River at this hour is still peaceful: just a few fishermen casting nets into a large pool below the area called Si Phan Don, or “4,000 islands.” It’s a popular tourist destination in Laos, where Southeast Asia’s most storied river splits into nearly a dozen channels before […]
