How China Is Destroying The Mekong River 

I’ve been in Cambodia and Vietnam one year ago, and i’m really disappointed about this. Those are the communities who can’t afford to lose their water. They’re just farmers and fishermen, they need the Mekongs water to stay alive. It is a really poor area of the world, if they lose their only source of income, these communities will cease to exist!!!

UN: We should be more environmentally friendly. China: Yes, you should.

I bet Japan feels pretty good on their island completely separated from the main continent.

I was in Cambodia on January and my tour guide told me that the Mekong river id dying because of the Chinese dams.

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When I was in Thailand we crossed the Mekong river into Laos, and for a river that goes all the way from Tibet to Vietnam it did seem awfully small. Now I know why...

My fam is from China. I've been interested in engineering and my dad is an engineer who has been working in a Chinese company that constructs and operates hydroelectric stations for 25+ yrs now. Recently he told me, that the reasons why so many mega-projects are being put into place in China are that, 1) The Chinese economy is no good in many aspects in the past decade, so the govt is desperately relying on expenditure on infrastructure like dams, railways, roads etc to aid the economy, DESPITE the negative/devastating or detrimental environmental consequences that may follow domestically or internationally. 2) The growing Chinese nationalism/chauvinism in China, justifying for these dams, and blinding the decision-making govt officials in China to believe, that whoever controls the upstream, is the NATURAL/INHERENT owner of the natural resources even tho they are in fact shared btwn neighboring countries, this belief is rampantly witnessable in the bidding process; My dad told me that, as dumb as it may seem, many of the dam projects being constructed right now in 2020 will totally go under-utilized or completely unnecessary for the next maybe 10-30 yrs. The govt wants to build these projects largely just cuz they don't want ppl to go unemployed, and perhaps more importantly, cuz they are DEFINITELY OBSESSED with bigger/taller/heavier/longer mega-projects that "shows" Chinese soft power, which is in itself, a manifestation of extremely low self-esteem on the national level. The engineers know this very very well, but the govt officials for some reason just don't. There's not much, we, a little player in the private sector of the grand Chinese economy can do, if the private sector doesn't do, the state-owned public companies will simply replace us, and they are definitely worse for everybody in many ways. But as I have sailed along the Mekong River in Laos, as I have visited the Tonle Sap in Cambodia, and as I hear my dad today telling me all these problems with the accumulating pebbles at the bottom of the dams, the disappearing fish, I feel rly sorry for all the ppl who is affected in any way by the not-very-responsible Chinese construction upstream. Our neighbors in SEA need to unite and challenge the Chinese govt from the outside, while we the engineers do what we can on our end. But I'm sure we all know, which institution is the real DEVIL.

Doesn't China build dams in the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers too?

"How China is destroying the Mekong river, and the rest of the world too"

This should be a series: How China is Destroying X.

Nobody : China to the southeast countries : *Hippity Hoppity, your river is now my property*

USSR: Destroyed the Aral Sea China: Will destroy the Mekong river

What isnt china destroying these days

It's an effective way to control those countries!

I'm a resident of Mekong Delta. From the end of 2019 to the beginning of the rainy season 2020, people faced with saline intrusion. We didn't have fresh water to use.

I live down here in Vietnam, the rainy season just started, but the drought has been brutal.

This is so messed up, bordering plain evil.

During the Vietnam war my mom and grandma had to swim across the mekong river holding my sister, she was 6 months old at the time.[I wasn't born yet] but also came along with them was my uncles they had nothing but a dead banana tree raft to escape the war. 2 of my mom' brothers were gunned down, my deaf uncle was fortunate enough to live through it. he turns 73 years old next year. And so after a few hours of hell in cold water they finally made it to the other side and they were taken by the Thai army and lucky my mom knew the Thai language. They were saved afterwards. (True story)

The E in China stands for environment

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China: Pisses everyone off Everyone: hates them China: 😮

Nazis: We committed more crimes against humanity than anyone! Chinese Communist Party: Hold my beer.

China is not “Lucky enough to control the water”. China invaded Tibet and is occupying that country, this has nothing to do with luck.

Xi Jin Ping wants to know your location.

Vietnam 2020: Nearly 1,000 square kilometers of durian trees died from seawater attacking the Mekong River in Vietnam. Water for durian 0.3g salt / liter. However, in 2020 = 3g -6g / liter. Many people lost nearly 7,000 USD to buy water but could not save their own durian tree. Farmer's loss = 150,000 A * 65,000 * 15 ( 15 year old Durian tree) + 5000 USD (water purchase cost) = 146 million dollars. In the future, they do not know what to plant in the Mekong river

The thumbs down are from the Chinese 😂

Mekong? No. Wekong? Nope. *More like Mykong. Just like Hong Kong.* - CCP, probably.

They got the consequences now. Flood!

And that's just one of the rivers dammed by china.......

They are thinking of their downstream neighbors. They're thinking of how to control them.

See the episode of The Grand Tour, where Jeremy Clarkson etc. buy boats and explore the Mekong river. They observe that there is no water.

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Chinese regime is the worst political erosion in humanity.

This is the same situation as what happening on the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea. China claimed the sea even though it's very far from their country, their large ships patrol on the Spratly Islands which is technically belongs to The Philippines, Filipino fishermen was sprayed by water cannon and even crashed by their large ship causing the boat to sink. Chinese government is absolutely greedy.

The oppressor must be attacked and removed from existence.

“Located within China” think there’s some disagreement there

Please also do a video on Turkey killing water supply for Syria and Iraq!

Thanks China.

Cambodia: Thank God China does not try to take over my territory.... China: Your Water is mine though...😏

Mexico only gets 10% of the water in the Colorado River, while the United States intercepts 90% of the river. Why is no one discussing this issue?

they're destroying the world tbh

Just like how the Soviet Union destroyed the Aral Sea.

China: We don't see a problem. South East Asia: Were have no water or fish and are dying. China: You say you need us to build MORE dams?

They destroyed the whole world. I am not gonna be surprised if they destroy a river. Lol

Last time I was this early the Mekong wasn't destroyed yet.

"Mekong was Chinese property since ancient times! Everything is Chinese property since ancient times!" -the CCP

Free Hong Kong

China: **is the source of large rivers that feed downstream countries** Also China: Dam it :)

only 18% of the total flow of the Mekong River comes from the Lancang River (The Mekong River in China is called Lancang River) , the impact is exaggerated in the video

China is doing a lot of stuff. Thank you for showing us this

When you control the lively hood of the people in other nations you essentially can control when laws can and cant get passed against you

I highly recommend a show called 'How America Is Destroying The Whole World', it would literally take at least a decade to film this show.

I just want to say it first Reallifelore didn’t kill himself

what thats a lot of dams for a single river 🙄

I was there 2019 (Laos, Cambodia, Mekong Delta) The river is seriously in trouble. What should have been 8m of water was 1.5m and the fish are so small (because they can’t get upstream to breed) they were passing through the size of the nets. Salination due to low flow was affecting rice yields in the delta which, I was told, should harvest three crops a year and feed millions. In Laos, all of the power from the dams will go to China for 30 years then the CCP will hand the dams back to Laos - but by then they will be rundown and maintainence costs will be enormous. FUBAR.

This is why they invaded Tibet the moment they won the civil war. For water.

I saw it on The Grand Tour already... I know what to expect already. :/

This just reminds me of that episode of Avatar the last airbender, when the fire nation built a dam which caused the ruin of a local fishing village, and katara had to become the painted lady spirit and destroy it to restore water flow smh...

It has been an unsolvable problem for decades. This might be one the first international media to cover the story. Longlasting drought and sudden floods had happened for many years in this area.

Russia did this too with one of their seas.

I don’t think it’s just happening in Mekong, even the Indus, Brahmaputra river in India will be affected sooner or later. It’s about supplying China with more renewable energy and water. They have 20% of world’s population but only 7% of fresh water supply to feed their people! Go do your math! It’s not about political leverage, it’s about survival in a fast fresh water shrinkage world due to climate change... in the near future, every country will be facing big and small water resource constraints.

Chinese destroyed beautiful Uighur land Eastern Turkistan aka Xinjiang. Endless influx of Chinese immigrants for the past 2 decades, building of different infrastructure projects brought ecological and demographic disasters!!!!

This is just the impact of the river changes on humans. Humans are the most adaptable creatures on the planet. Think of the impact these dams will have on animals and wildlife which can't adapt! Once again human greed for money is causing pain and suffering throughout the world.

Don't forget, the United States is doing the exact same thing to the Colorado river as china did with the mekong river

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Free Tibbat. Down with CCP..

this scam is certainly backfiring on them now. you want to store water??? ok lets see how much you can store!!! zero sympathy

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Just did a school presentation about this yesterday and today I got this in my recommendations

Create a list for China rule 1. Make China as an islamic states since they have cause 2 Big Plaque via their choice of food that's non halal. 2. Delete the Social Credit because the people only care about the money than Allah SWT reward. 3. Free Tibet 4. Free Xinjiang 5. Free inner Mongolia. 6. Reduce or remove and find a solution for the dam. 7. Upgrade the Mandarine to Arabic spelling so it can be more better and simple. The list goes on

Oh that’s why they wanted to steal Tibet so much

People need to understand that this is what modern warfare looks like. This is what a battlefield looks like today.

India is doing the same thing to us We are dying for water Btw i from bangladesh.

I already knew what he was going to say because of the grand tour special

That is called, Sabotage , How to Punish, countries that don't agree with you.

People forget countries in South East Asia receive heavy rains annually, unlike Egypt with Ethiopia trying to Dam the Nile

The consequences are now their country is deep in flood.

I guess you really can’t blame Laos and other Mekong countries since China has long built dams on the Mekong River.

“Radical capitalism continues unopposed” -headliner of every environmental news piece

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If the river flowed the opposite way the other countries would have dams and do the same thing. Greed is universal.

Not gonna lie the main reason I know about this is because of the grand tour

This could start a war.

My fam is in the Mekong Delta. This year is one of the most hottest season and difficult for us of all the time. The water level is so low and salty, people didn't have enough fresh water to use. Most of the land are drying now and became barren, it's very hard for us to cultivate. Because of the Chinese is keeping the water, so the water cannot carry enough dirt and solid to raise the level of the land. In recent years there have been numerous reports of subsidence occurring throughout the delta. My homeland is now sinking into the river and the sea 😢

This is a nonsense! The average runoff from china in the upstream of the Mekong river is just 15% of the total runoff. I am a personal dam engineer and with a collegous as hydrologist and environment enginner in the Mekong river commission. The major four country in the Mekong river commission is Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. China and Myanmar are basically "marginalised" in the Mekong river commission because they basically "own" very little part of Mekong river. The really problem is basically of those four countries. Laos want to build a lots of hydropower. Vietnam want agriculture. Thailand use it for transportation and fishing and the head in Thailand is already too low there to be utilised for hydropower. Cambodia is generally politically and economically to weak to do anything.

"China has every right to build dams and make the most of its natural waterways" bad take in this example #FreeTibet #FreeEastTurkestan #FreePalestine #LandBack #MMIW

The rainy season in Cambodia almost ends, but the level of the river is still low. We are concerning about its consequences 😌

And now China gets flooded 🤣 What comes around, goes around babe 😉

Why do we let China do whatever they want? I swear that country makes me mad.

Because of China, we'll live in a world without Tibetans, without elephants, without Hong Kong, without rhinos, without Mekong, without Uyghurs, without Cantonese language, without sharks.... That's a lot of destruction !

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Basically the Colorado River

S.E countrys "no you can't dam off our water" China "haha dam go brrrrrrr"

Winnie the pooh strikes again!!!!!!