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Dam Break in Northeast Laos Causes Heavy Losses For Locals, Builder
Heavy monsoonal rains in northeastern Laos ripped through a small one-megawatt hydropower dam in Xieng Khouang province’s Pek district earlier this week, causing extensive damage and flooding rice fields and property, local residents said Wednesday.“Because of heavy rainfall and too much water, the dam couldn’t ...
RFA’s Lao Service
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/dam-break-in-northeast-laos-08082019163519.html
Water Flow From China’s Jinghong Dam To Decrease
(KPL) The outflow of water from the Jinghong hydropower station in China’s Yunnan province will decrease by about 25-45 per cent over five days, according to an official notification from China’s Ministry of Water Resources being copied to the Mekong River Commission Secretariat on Monday.In ...
KPL News Desk
http://kpl.gov.la/En/Detail.aspx?id=47434
Xayaboury dam has not hindered water flow, officials say
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Government officials have dismissed social media reports that the Xayaboury dam is slowing the flow of water to downstream sections of the Mekong.The dam is built on the run-of-river model, which does not require water to be stored, the Director General of ...
Times Reporters
http://annx.asianews.network/content/xayaboury-dam-has-not-hindered-water-flow-officials-say-101451
Builders of Laos dam say they’re not responsible for lack of flow in Mekong River
Both the government of Laos and the builders of the Xayaburi dam are dismissing allegations that damming of the Mekong River, for the trial run of electricity generators, is one of the reasons for the sharp drop of water levels in the downstream stretches of ...
The Thaiger & The Nation
https://thethaiger.com/news/national/builders-of-laos-dam-say-theyre-not-responsible-for-lack-of-flow-in-mekong-river
Xayaboury dam on track to start commercial operation at year’s end
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Xayaboury hydropower plant yesterday began a trial operation of its fifth generator, setting the first run-of-river dam in the lower Mekong basin on track to begin commercial operation at the end of this year.A senior official at the Xayaboury Energy and ...
Ekaphone Phouthonesy
http://annx.asianews.network/content/xayaboury-dam-track-start-commercial-operation-year%E2%80%99s-end-100344
After Relocating for Dam Construction Project, 1,400 Lao Villagers Face Difficulties
Around 1,400 people in Laos are finding it difficult to support themselves three months after relocating for a local dam construction project. Some even return to their old villages to tend rice fields during the country’s planting season.The Chinese-backed Nam Ou 4 dam is one ...
RFA’s Lao Service
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/nam-ou-4-laos-relocation-07172019144359.html
Nearly 500 Families to be Displaced This Month for Laos’ Fifth Mekong River Dam
A new Mekong river dam in Laos’ Luang Prabang province will displace up to 465 families this month, the latest in the continuing trend of hydropower projects forcing villagers to relocate all over the country.Residents of 10 villages in Luang Prabang’s Chomphet district must be ...
RFA’s Lao Service
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/laos-luang-prabang-displacement-07122019165743.html
External factors short-circuiting national power grid development
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos is struggling to source more funding to develop the national power grid and improve access to electricity because of external factors, a senior official has said.Once construction of the national grid is complete, regions with surplus electricity generation capacity will ...
Somsack Pongkhao
http://annx.asianews.network/content/external-factors-short-circuiting-national-power-grid-development-99799
Water flow from China’s Jinghong station to fluctuate, no major impact expected
(KPL) The outflow of water from the Jinghong hydropower station in China’s Yunnan province will be fluctuating from Jul 5 – 19, 2019, according to an official notification from China’s Ministry of Water Resources being copied to the Mekong River Commission Secretariat on Jul 3.But ...
KPL News Desk
http://kpl.gov.la/En/Detail.aspx?id=46899
Villagers in Laos and Thailand Suffer as China Opens the Floodgates on Mekong River Dams
Villagers living near the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos are finding it difficult to cope with sudden releases of water from dams upstream in China.More than 200 famililes living in Laos’ Bokeo province have suffered because of sudden increases in the height of the ...
RFA’s Lao Service
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/china-dam-mekong-laos-thailand-07032019151600.html