Why China is Killing Asia's 3rd Longest River 

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No offense. Your reliance on the Stimson Center explains your objectivity on this topic.

OK I accept that the weather has changed and the water has dropped, I accept that another country, China in this case has built holding tanks/dams on a useless piece of the river and flattened out the river to make shipping possible, but once the Dams are full, they don't just drink it all the dams also release in a controlled manner. I can understand an American based program would object to that but but americans want to keep using and selling oil stolen by the USA.

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Wat a load of BS!

Didn't that happen to the Colorado river. Since the 1980 it virtually stopped flowing all the way to the sea. The Mexicans must be pissed.

@@ieuanhunt552 shhhh that doesn’t matter, America is allowed to do whatever they want while everyone else has to follow the rules.

​@@slamyourheadin9449 God, I sometimes feel so helpless when the despotic regimes of Russia and China are barely any worse than your own free democratic nation. What the hell are we bleeding for here, if not to be better than this??

@@ieuanhunt552 I used to live in Mexico right across the border, by the time the river crossed into Mexico the Colorado was a glorified irrigation canal. A pathetic, dirty trickle of water packed with sewage and fertilizers from our wonderful neighbors to the north so yeah.

It's one thing that's so funny with people wanting to build more and more dams, particularly in hot areas. You can evaporate 20%+ of a reservoir's water volume per year.

Not only that, but read about chinese cyberwarfare..its very potent

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Yeahhhhhhhhhh, whoo Jesus is coming back, whoooooo. Black Jesus right, we’re talking about the black Jesus?

@@TryPie256 What are you trying to do Trump

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我的家乡在中国的南部，小时候我家门口的河流也有很多鱼虾，树上很多水果，但是自从1998年开设大批外国工厂公司，河里鱼虾几乎没有了，树上的果子都不能吃，有虫子，这是工业带来的环境代价，现在政府加税，外资工厂全搬到越南印度，现在回家，感觉环境变好了。还有湄公河来自中国境内的水流只占13%，大部分还是各个支流汇入，整条湄公河流域各国都有水坝，各国工业发展增加，人口用水增加，却都在怪中国，不合理控制，以后下游水域会更艰难，中国人在阿联酋长国发言。

Please note that annual rainfall: Cambodia 1,904 mm; VN 1,821 mm; Thailand 1,622 mm; India 1,083mm; China a mere 645 mm. What a shame to blame water shortage on the most arid country!

​@@user-bp9be5mr2f Don't deny. China is never a g.o.o.d neighbor

@@hnguyen6832 柬埔寨🇰🇭也认为越南🇻🇳不是好邻居，墨西哥也认为美国不是好邻居。网上的越南，印度人都迷之自信，好像全世界都喜欢你们一样😂

​@@user-bp9be5mr2f be proud, dude. You are hated because you're a bully. And it's better to be a bully than being a victim, because there's only those 2 types in big games, nation to nation 🙄 And there is nothing anyone can do about that.

Exactly! It is still insane that we do not have international laws to protect our most precious natural resources like water and farmlands.

These are things you go to war for. I'm sure 20-40 years down the line when things get more drastic, it'll be a huge possibility.

Unfortunately, in the end, it is a geopolitical problem instead of a scientific problem, ideally, humanity should work together to fix it.

@@fractalcat4539 doesnt matter what the problem actually is, anything effecting entire countries become mainly political

Other countries need to put China in its place

qiu fusheng Aussies don’t like China and how they treat other countries Give it time and you will learn

there is no international community lmao

Right, except China is unlikely to follow those rules and do it anyway

Your naive

Lol international community. Its might is right on the international arena.

just let the river cross another country border into the sea. how about this.

Well, It enters into a tiny part of Mexico. It's not even comparable whereas the Mekong is extremely important to Southeast Asia.

Yeah, we cannot do the trending China Bashing with Colorado River. Nah.

他们并不是因为所谓的正义，他们只是为了攻击中国！

Its Its nothing compared to the size of these chinese dams

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China distroing the planet

@@TryPie256 troll comment

China sees no reason to play ball when Vietnam is in bed with the Americans

The tyrants in Beijing are a danger to both Asia and the world as a whole. The more people wake up and realize it, the better.

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It’s how Americans measure things, they’ll use anything BUT the metric system “That is TALLER than 85,000 hamburgers stacked on TOP of each other” 😂😂

@@bababababababa6124 lmao good point. A guess when you refuse to use the metric system anything is fair game. Measuring things in buffalo's probably makes more sense than using yards 😂

@@R.B.90 You do know the US uses yards right? It uses metric for everything but daily life of the average citizen.

@@bababababababa6124 yup lol. "This dam has 130,000 tons of concrete, which is the equivalent weight of 400 billion adult bald eagles after eating a Big Mac and putting on their size 5 Jordans."

yeah although it's also important who you have to share it with. I mean here in Europe we have the Danube that goes through a lot of countries but I haven't heard of anything like this happening. China is just a greedy self-centered country (I'm mainly talking about the government). These comministic dictatorships don't care about others. The rulers don't even care about their people.

I think this is fake news

USA dryed out Mexico already and now they are pointing fingers. Corn syrup-filled Coke is cheaper than drinking water in Mexico.

This kind of things have happened for ages. Usually the consequence is not becoming slaves, but initiating a war against the other country. I guess China feels confident about this not happening to them, but only time will say.

@@TryPie256 Shut up

The heck is happening with the world now. 🤦 They're dictating the flow of nature and we knew how nature take revenge from us.

Wish I can go back in time to Industrialize and Secularize the early-Bronze Age

There is a video about this on this channel. It's called "why Iraq in dying"

The US is doing it to Mexico.

we aren't doing that because we love to deprive anyone of their water but we literally have near to no coal oil and gas reserves we need everything we can use to feed our large population and growing industry's energy needs and those dams do exactly that we wanted Northern Iraq way back when and if we had it and its oil reserves this many dams wouldn't be necessary so water wouldn't be an issue on top of it if Kuwait wasn't separated Iraq wouldn't be landlocked and would export its oil way more easily and could have a Saudi level economy if anyone's at fault it's definetely the Brits

They can pay china to get water you know

@@planteruines5619 That's such a bad take

@@azarthi it's the tributary nature of the south east asian countries

@@planteruines5619 weak take. They shouldn't have to in the first place.

PlanteRuines has the correct perspective on China's sinister motivations and bad intentions.

That is terrible... I wish something could be done internationally

Yeah, I remember those days also

Blame CCP for it. They will destroy everything to fulfil their belt and road initiative

@@neophyte1994 nothing will be done. It’s China.

Those are the peak hours for electricity usage.

It's a US propaganda channel. So they wont, the video makers are white supremacists.

I think if you feel unfair, you can exchange the territory with the downstream for the upstream to the dissident country.

What you think of people who wear glasses?

@@u2beuser714 this question is so random 😂😂😂

@@leonzspotg no it's not random, he's referring to Cambodia''s regime under Pol pot who had people who wore glasses killed for being intellectuals the life expectancy in Khmer Cambodia was19 years old at one point

@@AlexC-ou4ju oh that i completely forgot about that 😂😂😂😂

@@u2beuser714 Dude wtf? OP likely lost family to Pol Pot. Almost a quarter of the population was undone.

Wendover made a 3 part documentary on the Colorado River in Nebula. Very very interesting.

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Except that it does flow over the border, it takes about 10 seconds to look a satellite imagery on Google 🙄

@@quack9694 There is a difference between a pathetic trickle dribbling over the border and any amount of water that is useful for large scale agriculture or industry.

@@quack9694 "Flow" is a bit of an exaggeration. Trickles, or maybe drips is more appropriate

My man I'm from Córdoba one of the cities where the Guadalquivir river passes through, the Tagus river aka Tajo doesn't even passes through the south, i'dont know if you are talking about another river, if that's not the case you have to review your map. The river Guadalquivir is born in Jaén (Sierra de Cazorla) and ends in Cádiz (Golfo de Cádiz). No se que quieres quitarnos la poca awita que tenemos mi hijo que en Andalucía tenemos sed tus muertos

iraq too face the same problem with turkey

@@elgolafre5832 aparently I know about your country better than you... and read again what I said. By the way, Google es tu amigo.

@@crazyoung007 i read it again and searched for it again, the only thing that came up was the canal de guadarrama a proyect that was never realise to connect the manzanares, tajo and guadalquivir in madrid, and repeat never realise, don't come up to me with orgullo hermano hispano

@@crazyoung007 another thing is that spain builds dams in the tajo river the only thing is that they aren't connected to the guadalquivir

America will invade Canada for water and other resources sooner or later

what the fuck are you even saying

okay big guy, calm down

Don’t worry, Thailand doesn’t receive a significant amount of electricity or water from the Mekong.

from what lol

Forwarded msg: There is no comparison. Flows from China account for only 13.5% of the total flow of the Mekong. To measure the impact of China's dam construction on the Mekong, you need to know what percentage of the 13.5% China has blocked. In fact, the Mekong is not drought, but seasonal drought. In some cases, the flow in the dry season is only 1/48 of that in the flood season. China is building hydropower stations, and the downstream flow will be reduced only during the water storage period. When the hydropower station is in stable operation, the water inflow and outflow are balanced. The root cause is that the global climate has become more extreme, with less precipitation in the dry season and more precipitation in the rainy season. By the way, a lot of Mekong research institutes are funded by the US and Australia, and you can hardly see any credible data. Their purpose is to spread distrust in China among ASEAN countries.

The author of this video fundamentally doesn't understand how dams work. Dams obviously don't "clog up" anything in terms of how much water will flow down the river... except in the very beginning (while they are filling up storage upstream) after which things will be back to normal (actually better due to flow control) or during extended draughts (which are caused by nature and climate change, climate change you can blame on the Western capitalist world). Explanation: Dams generate electricity by letting water run through them. They also have a maximum capacity and once that is filled they will let through ALL excess. Dams aren't magic black holes that make water disappear. There will not be "less water" flowing down the hill due to dams. The same way there will not be less wind due to windmills or less sunshine due to solar panels. He also abuses the word "significant" here to put blame on Chinese dams. Yes. Dams always have a "significant" negative impact on a whole range of things. Just like everything else anyone builds anywhere. Significant just means that something can be scientifically measured and attributed to a specific cause. For example, 0.01% less water due to dam storage would already be "significant". It would, however, not be an important contributing factor.

@@van-ps1qm Well said!

I learned how devastating it would be to detonate a couple nukes on the source glaciers

Wumaos are working so hard to clean their govenment's shits right now lol

Instead of crying, VN should catch the monsoon rainwater. China is not so lucky!

Do you think china will agree or follow any treaty. Has it followed any till now.

China : "Talk. To. My. Hand.

@@KumarNikhils The only way they stop is if Indo China region, the Philippines and all of those other smaller countries around China, just decide too all gang up and declare war cause they’re going to just die and be in economic turmoil anyways

Political perspective: USA have a dog name “English” , and English have a pup name “Australia & Canada” China have a friend name “Russia” who have multiple crushes in “Eastern Europe” And many big countries namely India, Brazil, African nations have ties with either of this country either a bond, debt or investment money. So there you have it the world power who have “The pen” is gone. DISCLAIMER: Animals in this message is only for interpretation for better understanding and are not mean for insulting respective countries.

@@KumarNikhils Its not just china where this a huge problem. Egypt and Ethiopia come to mind first.

Dams don't make water disapear. The Colorado river is not a river with high water supply.

@@junyuanma4243 you are mistaken, dams cause more evaporation, so they do make water “disappear”

@@junyuanma4243 You do not seem to understand how water evaporation works

@@VerdeMorte What water evaporates and it does it from large bodies of water more?

@@VictorDeveze LMFAO. Evaporation? The total evaporation is negligible comparing to the water amount. It's not Colorado River that flow accross deserts.

Please note that annual rainfall: Cambodia 1,904 mm; VN 1,821 mm; Thailand 1,622 mm; India 1,083mm; China a mere 645 mm. What a shame to blame water shortage on the most arid country!

Yet nobody seem to care!

That should be grounds for war.

@@stevelauda5435 I want to say it has caused countries to go to war in the past, since damns are not a new invention.

Americans only make video to condemn their enemies, not their Allies

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Do you think we didn’t want to? China invaded Tibet in 1959. Read the history first tf 🤷🏻‍♂️

But really you cannot blame people trying to escape poverty. Congo has 9% electricity coverage yet they have the river with the strongest rapids in the world. Would you blame them for wanting to use this resource to get electricity. The nile on the other hand is complicated. All countries deserve to use the water but historically Egypt has bullied other riparian states to how they could use the water instead of finding equitable ways of watersharing which is now biting them in the back

@@somi6683 yes. but you see everything just from the specio-centric perspective,. What about the habitats that are destroyed and species that are lost? You know, people actually care about this -- why is it not possible to use an alternative source of electricity? damming every darn major river in the world is somewhat boring. There are other ways. Ideally, one needs to tackle the political system. with political stability you could do photovoltaik. in the foreseeable future we have nuclear fusion. but species are lost forever. easiest is always the destruction of nature. this is deeply disturbing to the environmentalist.

@@jollyjokress3852 Burn more coal to generate electricity is the correct answer?

@@somi6683 Congo is sitting on trillions of dollars worth of wealth but the country is a mess. Hydro electrical power isn't their issue but it is an issue if they are screwing over the environment for all affected.

It happens a lot but the extend of this one is insane. Dozens of damns?

@@Homer-OJ-Simpson More like hundreds on the Colorado river

@@Marc-. hey, I see u defend chi-na and Rus in other comments. Anything more interesting to add? The amount of water dammed by PRC on Mekong is more than Colorado River. Also, hardly any Mexicans live in that small area of Mexico between US border and where the river runs into the gulf of California

FLIP THE EARTH UPSIDE DOWN. PROBLEM SOLVED

@@Marc-. Wumao spotted. Every comment made by CCP troll is "hey but what about America" , "America is evil too.." etc.

If US can do it to Colorado river others can do too

The difference is China is a huge nation with a huge military and Ethiopia is a small nation losing to rebels and cant fight Egypt who is gearing up for war cuz of the dam

@@dejannincic9671 Egypt can’t fight Ethiopia either because Ethiopia could potentially open the dam and flood Egypt if it wants

@Dejan Nincic Militarilyspeaking i dont think Ethiopia is necessarily weak , from what i have read "the rebels" are actually the ex-government of Ethiopia and had most of ethiopias military assets plus the US likes the old Ethiopian government so their current government gets alot of sanctions more over the current government still controls like half of fhe rebellious region (the region is pretty tiny btw ) so idk man ethiopia was able to invade somalia and force a regime change that takes some military capability Ethiopia is also a very mountainous country (has 70-80% of africas mountains ) so maybe they'll use it against egypt( since the country is a giant fortress it would be a nightmare to invade so egypt wont be able to secure thwir interests using an invasion

Upstream nations will rule the world. Deal with it.

@@Tonius126 god bless immigration

@@gabcedo and possibly a new area of industrial espionage.

No one will ever cover this because it is USofA u r up against.

@@Tonius126 and they should be ready for tidal waves of immigrants form those downstream nations deal with it

Earth needs a rule: no country can own a river. Kill anyone that tries to draw water from it. Sure, 4 or 5 billion people will die, but it's for the good of the species.

This is the same thing with ground water, air pollution, destruction of habitats like forests and human rights violations. "Who are you to tell Spain how they use THEIR ground water on THEIR side of the border, or the USA how they need to handle THEIR coal power plants or Brazil & Indonesia to preserve THEIR tropical rainforest or china how to treat THEIR citizens in Xingjiang?"

Yep. Wish someone would nuke them

He was comparing the volume of water, not the relative depths

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We will have Slovaks tourist coming soon. We will welcome them and hopefully they will enjoy their stay here. :)

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I suppose America is sweet and innocent

Agree with you...

@@IBTU no but we aren't China either

Yep for example: How the chinese government destroys countries by replacing governments with worse dictators and destabalize various regions by funding terror groups..oh wait!

American media...

Yeah !!! If he makes abt the Nile river I will thank God for making this smart guy 👦 ❤❤

Im from egypt

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@Metal Fan don't feed the troll

Damn, water wars.... It is clearly the natural resources that we humans fought and kill each other, and we aren't still learning from our mistakes.

Which country u from?

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i'm glad here in brazil we don't need to share rivers with others countries

i'm frmo Australia and same however our largest river has one of the largest floodplain/food areas in the world and farmers upstream are holding water back, like creating massive man made lakes purely to divert water in and starving off the river, killing communities and rying up the river downstream. We are literaly destroying ourselves, not another nation doing it.

@@peepeetrain8755 not entirely true, it only looks worse during drought times, and right now we are having an abundance of water. We have cycles mate which we work around but food still needs to be put on the table yr round.

they will never do it,americans are double standard

Is HOOVER dam of Colorado River still there ? Is this River dead Yet?

Yes, that's true, but its a massive dams, and to fill 1 dams takes a long time maybe years, so during those refilling years downstream level would be much lower than usual. Now what if there's 2 or more of such dams? Sure maybe in 10-15 years downstream levels will be back to normal, but how about the millions of people who depend on the the river to survive? And how about the water biosphere? Not to mention Vietnam is a major rice exporter, and to grow rice you need "tons" of water.. If their farms are destroyed, that means no rice for china too, because china itself still need to import rice and other food stocks to feed her 1.4 billion people

because western media/social media,

"only 15-20% of the water in Mekong comes from China" was a critical information that was (intentionally) missed from this video.

You are missing that the author did not tell that the total storage of water in tributary system of Mekong was 37.2 billion cubic meters and the predicted amount would increase to 100 billion till 2030. Furthermore, the frequency of droughts had been increasing in the last 6 decades while China did not built these dam then. Furthermore, I believe that it was a problem of coordination and cooperation instead of China intentionally blockading the down-stream.

@@zeinwahab9986 it actually only takes hours to fill it. You have no idea how much water is going along the river and actually how little the water can be stored

A country which devalues its culture is destined to doom.

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why do you hate China?

Hehe I like your final paragraph 😂 We love you Thais too, I hope you continue to thrive 🇹🇭

Lol oh yea Thai is the only country that has yet to be colonized, but y'all gave the Japanese a free passageway to my country Malaysia (previously known as Malaya). The saddest part is our history books don't talk about this at all. Y'all should have taken the hit and protected us from the north. Kill them or get killed. See where I am coming from? Lol no hard feelings though. National interests always come first. If Thailand becomes China today, Thailand would do the same to her neighbours.

This is not a bigger problem than US blocking the Colorado river and turning the Mexican part into desert. But I am sure you think that's caused by climate change. Climate change built dams to block the river

Interesting, are there any good videos on this id love to learn more

That sounds like something a villain in children's story would do

I've lived in Laos for a couple years now, locals have actually told me that most of the political powers of Laos are actually Chinese people who changed their names to sound Laotian - it's insane.

@@Rune_Full_Helm possible, but i really think it's just them being racist. Not all chinese are disguised as villains. Unless they have evidence, just saying that out of the blue is malicious.

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Oh I am curious. Can you pls explain whats happening to me?

@@leonardoherrera9059 intensive irrigation in California and other Western states means the Colorado no longer reaches its mouth in the Gulf of California. That's the short version.

I would argue while similar it's also different because as far as I'm aware Mexico isn't as reliant on the Colorado River as the US is. This does not mean the river hasn't been mismanaged just pointing out that while comparable it's still a very different situation. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

@@quintinpelley8710 it's the same situation for the people in the region, it went from a swamp before the Dam construction (they blocked the entire flow of water for 2 years to fill it) into a arid desert, doesn't help that the flow got smaller in recent years because they built another dam just north of the border and the mexicali valley is drying up even more

Yup. Giant imperialistic countries hoarding resources at whatever the external cost. Disgusting.

There's the middle of the ocean and the desert. Those are places that don't really get controlled.

Please note that annual rainfall: Cambodia 1,904 mm; VN 1,821 mm; Thailand 1,622 mm; India 1,083mm; China a mere 645 mm. What a shame to blame water shortage on the most arid country!

Thanks!

This may be the worst error Sam has made on either channel.

This is wrong. For starters, Brahmaputra is much longer than Yenisay and Ob which are both sub-3500kms.

@@PD-dg6zk Ob River is over 3500 km, even if you don't consider the Irtysh River is regarded as part of the Ob River.

@@TheSpiritombsableye It says "third largest river in Asia" on Wikipedia, which is probably why he said it.

Yeah it's a bit of a mess. I love how they managed to drain an entire lake and now the town that's built on it is now sinking as they pull out the ground water. I don't really see it as a good or bad thing either it's just a thing we did that has ramifications. Now we have to decide what if anything we do about it. To quote one of my favourite lines from a film. "Well that's where we are. You say we're on the brink of destruction and you're right. But it's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve."

Same here in the rio bravo

as long as the american west spends 70-80% of it's water on growing alfalfa, the vast majority of which is exported overseas, restoration is a pipe dream.

I'm glad that my country doesn't share any major river with other nations, just the Amazonas but no one lives there

That's incredibly misleading. The US dams the river so that people can build almond farms and golf courses in the desert, not to mention cities that should not exist at all in the size or capacity that they currently do. Mexico exists off of what is left. The US is to blame. Greedy, white Americans are to blame. Full stop.

van33 11 8 hours ago The author of this video fundamentally doesn't understand how dams work. Dams obviously don't "clog up" anything in terms of how much water will flow down the river... except in the very beginning (while they are filling up storage upstream) after which things will be back to normal (actually better due to flow control) or during extended draughts (which are caused by nature and climate change, climate change you can blame on the Western capitalist world). Explanation: Dams generate electricity by letting water run through them. They also have a maximum capacity and once that is filled they will let through ALL excess. Dams aren't magic black holes that make water disappear. There will not be "less water" flowing down the hill due to dams. The same way there will not be less wind due to windmills or less sunshine due to solar panels. He also abuses the word "significant" here to put blame on Chinese dams. Yes. Dams always have a "significant" negative impact on a whole range of things. Just like everything else anyone builds anywhere. Significant just means that something can be scientifically measured and attributed to a specific cause. For example, 0.01% less water due to dam storage would already be "significant". It would, however, not be an important contributing factor.

@@emhgarlyyeung ... if you place a bowl of water that is 10% full, it's going to evaporate at a rate much faster than if you were to place a water that is 100% full out in the sun. If the 10% full water evaporates completely in 1hr; that 100% full water is not going to disappear in 10 hours. That's the concept for the water drying up here; you're overall reducing the amount of water flowing and speeding up the evaporation process so the water doesn't last very long in the river.

@@emhgarlyyeung You are either misinformed or lying. A dam takes energy from the river, makes it flow more slowly, and causes more evaporation. The CCP is a gang run by psychopaths who don't even care about the Chinese people.

He is not interested in Equatorial Guinea.

Compare to Japan releasing its nuclear waste to the Pacific Ocean, it's nothing. Forwarded msg 1: The video is misleading. The dried out pictures are not the Mekong. I have seen Mekong river many times i Thailand and the river is Massive. It is more than 1 km wide. Forwarded msg 2: What about to the upstream dam to generate electricity? The stored water still has to be put downstream, should it be stored until it explodes or drinks it up? Don't you not understand the law of conservation of mass? Slow release of water can also slow down flooding downstream which is good thing. What an ignorant objection! Forwarded msg 3: Fresh water is precious, it is better to stay in the dam than to flow out of the sea... As for the flow, it cannot be controlled by manpower, but it must be a little more controlled than if there is no water storage. Forwarded msg 4: Why does this video mention that "The Mekong River Commission (MRC) began working with China and Myanmar in 1996 when these two countries agreed to become Dialogue Partners."?????

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Hey, if you're on the subject of New Mexico being asshats, don't forget what they did to the Pecos river.

That what we call double standard

Compare to Japan releasing its nuclear waste to the Pacific Ocean, it's nothing. Forwarded msg 1: The video is misleading. The dried out pictures are not the Mekong. I have seen Mekong river many times i Thailand and the river is Massive. It is more than 1 km wide. Forwarded msg 2: What about to the upstream dam to generate electricity? The stored water still has to be put downstream, should it be stored until it explodes or drinks it up? Don't you not understand the law of conservation of mass? Slow release of water can also slow down flooding downstream which is good thing. What an ignorant objection! Forwarded msg 3: Fresh water is precious, it is better to stay in the dam than to flow out of the sea... As for the flow, it cannot be controlled by manpower, but it must be a little more controlled than if there is no water storage. Forwarded msg 4: Why does this video mention that "The Mekong River Commission (MRC) began working with China and Myanmar in 1996 when these two countries agreed to become Dialogue Partners."?????

@@cc_fffknow (all) humans = hypocrite 😀

Yes, more people need to see your comment. How the US is brazenly committing crimes while criticizing others for doing the same.

Lol why r u asking reasonable questions in a propaganda piece lol? most of the data on which this piece is based is from the study by the Stimson center, which got discredited by a report from tsinghua. Turns out their data was highly inaccurate thus the conclusions were suspect at best. There is really very little tension between China and southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam or Cambodia (I know many Vietnamese folks will disagree, but politically these two countries are not really locking horns currently). And there has been consensus amongst the governments that they will work together to make sure data is shared… if we see this as an engineering problem it could be solved. But then again he’s not gonna come up with a piece on how the governments have worked with each other to solve this issue is he lol?

Please note that annual rainfall: Cambodia 1,904 mm; VN 1,821 mm; Thailand 1,622 mm; India 1,083mm; China a mere 645 mm. Heaven will bless those who think with their brains and work with their hands!

@@charleschoy2327 Take out an actual notebook and write "Upstream gives 30% of water during dry season, where they need them the most, on a related note, write that evaporation is significant, due to the fact that Vietnam is hot, about 20% of the water would be evaporated before reaching the sea."

@@GlitchedBlox Do not encourage laziness. With so much rainfall, encourage SEA to collect the rainfall for dry season use. After going through the turbines, the 30% still run along. 20% evaporation is nobody's fault. Just deal with it.

@@charleschoy2327 20% Evaporation is China's fault, dummy, it wouldn't evaporate 20% if they don't store it in a closed storage, how did water managed to reach the end of the river before the dam was built? And explain how rainwater could be collected efficiently? Dig through the sand and dirt? Extract the water? Use a water bucket?

Forwarded msg: There is no comparison. Flows from China account for only 13.5% of the total flow of the Mekong. To measure the impact of China's dam construction on the Mekong, you need to know what percentage of the 13.5% China has blocked. In fact, the Mekong is not drought, but seasonal drought. In some cases, the flow in the dry season is only 1/48 of that in the flood season. China is building hydropower stations, and the downstream flow will be reduced only during the water storage period. When the hydropower station is in stable operation, the water inflow and outflow are balanced. The root cause is that the global climate has become more extreme, with less precipitation in the dry season and more precipitation in the rainy season. By the way, a lot of Mekong research institutes are funded by the US and Australia, and you can hardly see any credible data. Their purpose is to spread distrust in China among ASEAN countries.

@@emhgarlyyeung I really don’t think you watched the video…. Though, the distrust of China is not abnormal. Quite common because China is a government not to be trusted. Imo.. worst than the US. Though I do understand what you are saying with with the seasonal drought. Still doesn’t justify the end of the river itself drought level along with the Species/specimens going extinct/endangered that travel through the Mekong such as the Mekong catfish

@@emhgarlyyeung Didn't the video say that Mekong's flow account for over half of the water supply of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand during the dry seasons between November and April?

@@AkshatSharma1505 Do not believe everything from a propaganda video, but even it's really half, it's only reduce half the water, what cause the dry is because of weather and earth environment getting climate change, it happened many time repeatedly in history before China build the dams. What people should do is learn from China experience, every countries build their dam and try to store some water, and use those fresh water during dry season, not go to blaming everyone else but your self. Even if China remove all the dams, when dry season come, it will still dry, and what worst is even China also dry together.

China is really annoying all of its Asian neighbors. They have territorial disputes with Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, India. And now they are killing the rivers of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam. Maybe we should all just join together against the common enemy that is the CCP.