Mekong drawing, Thailand - a photo on Flickriver

Not an unusual sight along the banks of the once mighty river Mekong. The river has extreme seasonal variations in flow with massive swelling during rainy season and again receding during dry season, exposing sandbanks and carved bedrock and leaving plains to dry.
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The natural cycles however have become interrupted and altered by numerous hydropower dams built over the last years, that have changed the patterns of flow, and further dams are planned and being built that will escalate the situation.
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Fish migration routes are blocked and irregular/unseasonal release of water and lack of sediments carried by the river cause damage for bio-diversity, as well as agriculture and fisheries in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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Affected are millions of often the poorest people in Southeast Asia, who live off the nutrient rich environment and fisheries sustained by the river. A social and ecological disaster is in the making in plain sight.
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Besides this however, I also like the graphic qualities, the 'drawings' left behind, with patterns and sand/mud/rock formations that I haven't seen any place else. Check some more pics published previously in my album along the Mekong

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Taken in: Thailand / Changwat Ubon Ratchathani / Ban Khan Tha Kwian (show map)

Taken on: December 30, 2011

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