“Water has become expensive, and it will be even more expensive in the future, which will make it the ‘blue gold’ of the 21st century”. Ricardo Petrella, 3/2000
“For every claim to virtue made by the proponents of big dams, there is a clear-cut, factual and demonstrable refutation”. Elmer Peterson, Big Dam Foolishness, 1954
“In my view, nature is awful and what you do is cure it”. Camille Dagenais, Canadian dam engineering firm SNC, 1985
To The Friends of The Mekong
and VN2020 Mekong Group
and VN2020 Mekong Group
The first article sketched a general overview of the issue and offered these observations: hydroelectricity still remains the least costly source of power to meet the needs of economic development. Consequently, the exploitation of hydro-power on the Mekong is an irreversible process that will move ahead regardless of oppositions that may be raised along the way. What is needed now is a macroscopic plan to neutralize the cumulative impacts caused by climate change and the hydroelectric dams built upstream.
