Mekong Mainstream Dams / Letters

Today, 51 citizens groups and individuals from the six Mekong countries sent a letter to Jeremy Bird, the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat, challenging him to solve the MRC's crisis of legitimacy and relevancy, recently exemplified by its failure to respond to civil society concerns over plans to dam the lower Mekong mainstream. View the letter, the accompanying press release, and the MRC's response.

201 signatories express their concern about the revival of plans to build dams on the lower Mekong, and the failure of the international Mekong River Commission (MRC) to uphold the 1995 Mekong Agreement. Read the letter to MRC, and the MRC secretariat and development partners response.

This letter from thirty eminent scientists raises concerns over the impacts of the Don Sahong Dam planned for the mainstream Mekong River in the Khone Falls area of Southern Lao with Governmental and international agencies responsible for managing and developing the Mekong River.

OPEN LETTER FROM 28 NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs) TO THE LAO PDR GOVERNMENT, THE MEKONG RIVER COMMISSION, AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF THAILAND, CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM

Plea to abandon plans for the Don Sahong Dam on the mainstream Mekong River in the Khone Falls area