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INSIGHT-How dams built by China starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment

Just 15 years ago, Southeast Asia's longest river carried some 143 million tonnes of sediment – as heavy as about 430 Empire State Buildings – through to the Mekong River Delta every year, dumping nutrients along riverbanks essential to keeping tens of thousands of farms like Cung's intact and productive. But as Chinese-built hydroelectric dams have mushroomed upriver, much of that sediment is being blocked, an analysis of satellite data by Germany-based aquatic remote sensing company EOMAP and Reuters shows. ....

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How dams built by China starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment

How dams built by China starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment
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