(1 Feb 2024)
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Luang Prabang, Laos – 29 January 2024
1. Luang Prabang and Mekong River from Phousi Hill
2. Varied of vacationers taking images on Phousi Hill
3. Broad of Luang Prabang and Mekong River
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Luang Prabang Dam, Laos – 28 January 2024
4. Varied of Luang Prabang Dam 25 kilometers (15 miles) from Luang Prabang upstream on Mekong River
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Chiang Mai, Thailand – 23 January 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Hirsch, professor emeritus of human geography at Sydney College:
“There are a number of hundred kilometers of nonetheless free flowing river which can stop to be the case if the Luang Prabang Dam, or reasonably, when the Luang Prabang Dam is accomplished and much more so when the Pak Beng Dam instantly upstream is then accomplished. And which means that the communities, the 20-something communities residing alongside the stretch of river to be flooded by the Luang Prabang Dam will not be practising their livelihoods, will not be promoting, sending their produce to the city in the identical approach and we’ll see a river that is largely engineered and changing into a river serving industrial functions.”
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Luang Prabang Dam, Laos – 28 January 2024
6. Varied of building at dam
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Luang Prabang, Laos – 28 January 2024
7. Varied of Som Cellphone, 38-year-old tour boat operator and Luang Prabang resident looking over Mekong River in Luang Prabang
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Som Cellphone, tour boat operator:
“It’s a really excessive river. And after the dam, individuals change. On the village on (the) river (they) must go excessive within the mountain as a result of (the) river (is) very excessive.”
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Mekong River between Luang Prabang Dam and Luang Prabang, Laos – 28 January 2024
9. Varied of individuals fishing in river
10. Village alongside river
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Washington D.C., United States – 24 January 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Eyler, director of the Washington-based Stimson Middle’s Southeast Asia Program and its Vitality, Water and Sustainability Program:
“That dam will spoil that have for locals and vacationers alike. Since you’ll not be capable of journey there with out getting off first on the dam after which in all probability bussing into the previous city. So as an alternative of being greeted by, you understand, a UNESCO World Heritage Website, you will be greeted by a dam, a giant, ugly concrete construction.”
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Luang Prabang, Laos – 28 January 2024
12. Varied of vacationers at Xiengthong temple
13. Varied of tour boats on Mekong River
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Luang Prabang Dam, Laos – 28 January 2024
14. Varied of dam building
STORYLINE:
Because the solar units over a UNESCO World Heritage Website in Laos, vacationers collect on Phousi Hill, a well-liked picture spot with views of the previous metropolis Luang Prabang, with its Laotian and colonial structure.
The winding Mekong River which runs by means of it.
However simply 25 kilometers upstream, a dam building web site has prompted considerations that it might consequence within the metropolis dropping its UNESCO standing.
The Luang Prabang Dam is a multibillion-dollar a part of the Laos authorities’s formidable plans to construct dams alongside the Mekong.
The problem shall be mentioned by UNESCO in July throughout its conferences in New Delhi, however building continues within the meantime.
There are a number of hundred kilometers of free-flowing river, which can cease as soon as the dam is accomplished and can end in flooding, in line with Philip Hirsch, a professor emeritus of human geography at Sydney College.
He mentioned the river will then be serving ” industrial functions.”
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