Lancang-Mekong River is the world’s 11th longest river running
through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. In
terms of bio-diversity, Lancang-Mekong is second only after the
Amazon. For thousands of years, the river has been providing
beneficial floods, fish, alluvial soil, fresh water and food for
the people living alongside its route and in its basin. Today,
Lancang-Mekong is no longer the same life- supporting river to
the people in the region. The entire Lancang-Mekong basin has
seen the historic drought in 2010 and downstream people blamed
China dams for the problem. Precipitation and water level
throughout the basin dropped to 1 in 50 year low level and even
lowest historical level in Vietnam. Last year, Mekong fishermen
were mostly empty- handed. Each fisherman used to catch 50 kg of
fish per day in the past, but last year, the market fish price
in Vietnam delta shot up 10 times right at the peak of the flood
season when fish should be plentiful and least expensive. In the
second week