naturalfeature:mekong river

Trouvé ce matin sur Internet en faisant une recherche sur le peuple #punong (ou #Pounong ou #pnong or #Bunong)

Indigenous People in Northeast Cambodia Fight to Protect Their Cultures and Lands Against The Lower Sesan 2 Dam

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Ici une carte indiquant où se trouve le fleuve #Tonlé_San:

Tonlé San, also known as Tonlé Se San or #Sesan_River, is a river that flows through central Vietnam and north-east Cambodia. It is a major tributary of the Mekong River. A short portion of the river forms a part of the international border between Cambodia and Vietnam.

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#peuples_autochtones #Cambodge #digue #énergie #fleuve #Se_San #barrage #barrage_hydro-électrique
cc @albertocampiphoto

Floating homes: a solution to flooding, crowded cities and unaffordable housing
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/29/floating-homes-architecture-build-water-overcrowding-cities-unaffordabl

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Architects and city planners across the world are starting to look beyond the traditional confines of the city, towards building on water as one of the answers to reducing inner-city population density and also developing flood-resilient designs. Global damage to cities from flooding could amount to $1tn a year by 2050 if no action is taken, according to a World Bank report.

Floating architecture is nothing new. Traditional floating villages are common in deltas and along the Mekong river in south-east Asia. But integrating age-old designs into a modern city is a different matter entirely.

#ville #inondation #montée_du_niveau_de_la_mer

Dams, drought and disaster along the Mekong river

The dry months before the monsoon rains arrive are often tough for Cambodian fishermen and farmers. But with rivers drying up and drinking water running out, conditions have rarely been as bad as they are now.

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#Mekong #fleuve #barrages #eau #sécheresse
via @albertocampiphoto

The Mekong river: stories from the heart of the climate crisis | Environment | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/nov/26/the-mekong-river-stories-from-the-heart-of-the-climate-crisis-interacti

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The fate of 70 million people rests on what happens to the Mekong river. With world leaders meeting in Paris next week for crucial UN climate talks, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway - a place that encapsulates some of the dilemmas they must solve. He meets people struggling to deal with the impacts of climate change as well as the ecological havoc created by giant dams, deforestation, coastal erosion and fast-growing cities

#eau #rivière #mékong

Hydro-control turning China into dreaded hydra?
►http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/261849/hydro-control-turning-china-into-dreaded-hydra

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With Beijing controlling the sources of Asia’s most important rivers, water has increasingly become a new political divide in China’s relations with neighbours like India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Nepal and the Mekong River countries.

No other country has ever managed to assume such unchallenged riparian pre-eminence on a continent by controlling the headwaters of multiple international rivers and manipulating their cross-border flows. China, the world’s biggest dam builder with slightly more than half of the approximately 50,000 large dams on the planet is rapidly accumulating leverage against its neighbours by undertaking massive hydro-engineering projects on transnational rivers.

#eau #Chine #Asie #barrages