What they are more concern is not the catfish but the opportunity to cruise along the Mekong taking pictures of third world people and habitat.

I support the littoral states plan to build as many dams as possible to go greeen and control floodings. The catfish are smarter than all these westerners, and they will know how to adapt.

Dams brings significant benefits to a country’s economic growth. On the long run, it is more “green” than most other sources of energy. The ecological impact well managed can be minimised. The benefit of many decades of a pollution free power source should not be ignored. If the west gets their way at blocking building of dams, no under-developed country can ever build another dam and enjoy its benefit. The west has already got their dams.
Now it is saying no you can’t have yours.

The 3 gorges dam will reap tremedous benefits for centuries to come. It was less problematic to implement as it is all within one country. The mekong is a lot more challenging straddling across many nations. The way forward is to built the dams and share the pain and benefits as equitably as possible among the countries. Quite a duanting task though, but if it can be worked out, it will help the region out of its poverty trap. Just like the Nile and Ganges in the Indian subcontinent. If a peaceful solution can be found to jointly tap this huge dynamo of economic and social hope, millions will benefit, never mind the West saying it is ecologically harmful.

I ask the question, “What price, Laos battery of Asia.”

Perhaps, there is a need for a cap on the number of mainstream and tributary dams on the entire Mekong basin.

The same hidden agenda to put obstacles in the way of growth of other countries to ensure their world dominance.

Hoover Dam and its associated changes in water use had devastating impact on the Colorado River Delta at the mouth of the Colorado River. The construction of the dam has been pointed to as the beginning of an era of decline of this estuarine ecosystem. For six years in the late 1930s, after the construction of the dam and while Lake Mead filled, virtually no flow of water reached the mouth of the river. The delta’s estuary, which once had a freshwater-saltwater mixing zone stretching 65 kilometres south of the river’s mouth, was turned into an inverse estuary where the level of salinity was actually higher closer to the river’s mouth.

Looking upstream from Hoover Dam on March 2009, the water level has decreased drastically.The Colorado River had experienced natural flooding before the construction of the Hoover Dam. The dam eliminated the natural flooding, which imperiled many species adapted to the flooding, including both plants and animals.

The construction of the dam decimated the populations of native fish in the river downstream from the dam.Four species of fish native to the Colorado River, the Bonytail chub, Colorado pikeminnow, Humpback chub, and Razorback sucker, are currently listed as endangered by the U.S. federal government.

Strong vocal opposition to the dam is required.