A Talk by Courtney Weatherby
The Mekong region has experienced both massive floods and devastating drought. Human infrastructure and are impacting the resilience of the system. The massive build-out of hydro-power installations along the river pose both high-level economic and geopolitical challenges but also concrete impacts to food, water, and energy security for tens of millions of people living along the Mekong River and Tonle Sap, which is the beating heart of fisheries for the Mekong system.
Courtney Weatherby will discuss the challenges surrounding trans-boundary coordination of water resources and infrastructure. Rather than focus only on the problems she will present a more sustainable alternative to the business-as-usual pathway that has prompted over-development of hydro-power throughout the Mekong Basin. If policymakers take advantage of renewable energy alternatives and also use multi-sector planning tools to strategically select less-impactful sites for hydro-power, it isn’t too late to preserve the mightiness of the Mekong River.
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