Thailand’s Mekong water-diversion plan raises concerns
The Thai government’s statement in late July that it is considering bringing water from the Mekong, Moei and Salween rivers to farmland to nine of its provinces has raised major concerns.
The water diversion has been described as a move to ‘extract blood from the Mekong’s body’.
Dr. Nguyen Nhan Quang, director of the Centre for Promotion of Integrated Water Resources Management, said that the Mekong River is the common property of the mankind.
