A bend in the river.  

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Beech, Hannah

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Time Magazine vol. 170 no. 10 (Sep. 2007), page 26.
Topik: Mekong; China; Water; Fish; Hydroelectric power;

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By turning te Mekong into a busy highway for trade and new source of hydropower, China boosts the economies of its neighbors--yet threatends the very life of the waterway it seeks to tame. The nets yield almost no fish today, the same as yesterday and the day before that. For generations, Bun Neang's family has depended on the bounty of Cambodia's Tonle Sap, a vast lake fed by one of the world's greatest rivers, the Mekong. Two decades ago, his father could rely on daily cathch totaling about 65lbs. (30kg). When the water gods were feeling particularly charitable, he would land a Mekong catfish, a masive bottom-feeder that can weigh as much as a tiger. But today, when Bun Neang dips his net into the caramel-hued waters near Chong Koh villafe, all the 30-year-old can hope for is a few kilos of sardine-sized fish. Overfishing is partly to blame. But Bun Neang knows of another reason Tonle Sap's big game have all but disappeared. "China" he says of the country that is now tiny Cambodia's biggest foreign investor and economic patron. "Instead of sharing the Mekong, the dam the river and keep it for themselves."

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