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China should ensure dam doesn't hurt Mekong-Hanoi
VIETNAM: October 16, 2000
HANOI - Vietnam says neighbouring China should ensure
its dam building on the upper parts of the Mekong River
does not harm the environment along the river further
downstream.
"We think that the use of Mekong River should not cause any impact on
the quality and quantity of water in the Mekong River," Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh said in a statement seen on Friday.
"(It) should ensure the sustainability of the ecological environment of the
entire river as well as legitimate and equal interest of all the countries
located in the basin."
Thanh was responding to an article in the latest edition of the Hong
Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review magazine that said
environmentalists were worried about the potential effect of a dam
nearing completion in southern China's Yunnan province.
The new dam was apparently not a factor in devastating floods this year
in the lower Mekong River region which have killed about 600 people in
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand and forced hundreds of
thousands from their homes.
But the environmentalists feared it would harm the environment
downstream by increasing industrial pollution, obstructing fish
migration and trapping silt that enriches soil, the magazine said.
The Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam is the country's key
rice-growing area.
The massive dam, the second of 14 planned hydroelectric dams on the
Chinese section of the river, is expected to be completed next year, the
magazine said.
The Red Cross and United Nations have blamed deforestation for the
Mekong floods and warned of worse to come.
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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