China has already built six mega-dams on the Mekong – the lifeblood for continental Southeast Asia – with its latest addition being the 254-meter-high Nuozhadu Dam, whose gargantuan reservoir is designed to hold nearly 22 billion cubic meters of water.
China ya ha construido seis megarepresas en el Mekong, arteria fluvial importantísima del Sureste de Asia continental. La última ha sido la Represa Nuozhadu, de 254 metros de alto, cuyo enorme embalse se ha diseñado para contener cerca de 22 mil millones de metros cúbicos de agua.