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Under a peeling sun, two Thai grandmothers pan for gold along the Mekong River, sifting both through its muddy shale banks and their own memories of happier times for a waterway which has been changed forever by upstream hydropower dams. By the time the Mekong reaches them in Loei, on the Thai-Laos border, the water has already been strained through. ....
news Thailand’s gold panners blame Mekong dams in China, Laos as fortune dries up Vijitra Duangdee in Loei, Thailand Hieng Chantarasee, a 70-year-old gold panner in Loei province of Thailand, a few kilometres downstream from the proposed Sanakham dam in Laos. Photo: Vijitra Duangdee Under a peeling sun, two Thai grandmothers pan for gold along the Mekong River, sifting both through its muddy shale banks and their own memories of happier times for a waterway which has been changed forever by upstream hydropower dams. By the time the Mekong reaches them in Loei, on the Thai-Laos border, the water has already been strained through a dozen dams - 11 of them in China and one in Laos. ....