Sad fate: Many fish were found ‘cooked’ in the hot water of ponds in the Mekong riverbed in Nong Khai’s Sangkhom district after the water level receded. — The Nation/Asia News Network
Bangkok: The Mekong River’s extremely low level of water caused by upstream hydropower dam projects has triggered the death of masses of fish and heightened the risk of mass extinction of aquatic life in the entire Mekong River Basin, environmental experts highlighted.
They said that the ongoing loss of biodiversity in the Mekong Basin is posing a major threat to food security and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people in the region.
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