Mekong dams and the perils of peace

Survival

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 147-160

  Cronin, Richard ^a  

^a Henry L Stimson Center   (United States)

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EID: 77951673976     PISSN: 00396338     EISSN: 14682699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00396330903461716     Document Type: Article

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2. Agreement on the Cooperation for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin, chap. 3, art. 6.
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4. Soon after the programme was launched, China began spending more on infrastructure development in the west than either its central or coastal regions.
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7. The gross active storage of Xiaowan and Nuozhadu, which act as cisterns to the entire cascade, are respectively 14,560 and 22,400 (some sources say 22,700) billion cubic meters. Three other dams already operating have large reservoirs by any standard, but at about 1bn m3 each they are regarded as providing only 'seasonal storage', which in several dry sea-sons has been inadequate to maintain full power output.
8. John Dore and Yu Xiaogang, 'Yunnan Hydropower Expansion: Update on China's Energy Industry Reforms and the Nu, Lancang and Jinsha Hydropower Dams', working paper, Chiang Mai's Unit for Social & Environmental Research and Green Watershed, Kunming, People's Republic of China, March 2004, Table 7 (Lancang), http://www.sea-user.org/download_pubdoc.php?doc=2586.
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11. Actual releaseswould depend on the level of the reservoir and the river and power demand.
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18. Previously known as the Strategic Economic Dialogue, which focused only on high-level financial and trade issues, the addition of the 'and' opened up the meeting to the participation of the secretary of state and her Chinese counterpart. To date, the dialogue has been preoccupied with the global economic and financial crisis and climate change, but the scope of dialogue includes regional and international issues.
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