Enhancing water cooperation through clean energy transition

Recent work by the Stimson Center, IUCN, the University of California-Berkeley, and The Nature Conservancy shows if Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam take advantage of recent advances in renewable power generation and transmission technologies, they can achieve energy security (defined as the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price) at significantly lower social, environmental, and political risks. 

Water management in the Mekong region is, in practice, dominated by energy objectives. 

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