Development Asia—Racing to Reach the Millennium Development Goals: October–December 2009
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Dams Threaten Mekong Livelihoods
WATER WORKS Twenty-eight dams have been, or are being, built on the Mekong River, despite protests that dams threaten fish populations by blocking off spawning grounds.
For thousands of years, the Mekong River has nourished civilizations and housed one of the world’s most diverse populations of fish and plants.
Yet 17 dams recently built on the Mekong and its tributaries in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Thailand, and Viet Nam, as well as 11 more in the planning process, are threatening Mekong fisheries—and thereby the food security they have provided for millions, critics warn.
People affected could number in the millions, due to the extensive changes expected to the river’s ecosystem downstream,
Aviva Imhof, campaigns director of International Rivers, an NGO based in California, told IRIN.
Most alarming, NGOs say, is a cascade of eight dams being built in the Upper Mekong in the PRC, the origin of Southeast Asia’s largest river, which could alter the ecosystem downstream for Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Thailand.
Of the eight dams in the PRC, four have been completed. NGOs claim they are already undermining fish populations and causing erosion in downstream Myanmar, northern Thailand and northern Lao PDR.
The dams are allegedly blocking Mekong fish from traveling upstream to spawn, threatening fisheries.—IRIN news service
New Flood-Proof, Drought-Tolerant Rice
Researchers have achieved some success in developing rice varieties that can withstand extreme conditions. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) reports that scuba rice,
which can survive more than 2 weeks under water, is now being grown in flood-prone areas in India and Bangladesh.
In Japan, researchers led by Motoyuki Ashikari, a professor at the Bioscience and Biotechnology Center at Nagoya University, are hoping to develop rice varieties that can hold out under water even longer, says Sci-Dev.Net, a nonprofit organization providing information on science and technology for the developing world. They discovered two snorkel genes
in rice that enable the plant to elongate its stem and keep its leaves above water as the flood