water power should help for this region are increasingly the "battery" power-hungry Laos, the Government hopes the four Member States of the Commission get together for a final decision on Mekong River, whether allow the construction of a controversial dam.The proposed hydroelectric project on the Xayaburi would be the first to be constructed on the main stream of the lower Mekong.
Laos is hoping to be "the battery of Southeast Asia".
The Mekong River Commission judgment to determine whether the River is a source of food for millions of people remains or is a source which makes instead.
Laos's plans mean using the rivers to generate electricity for export, this gain income of the country - develop, that's fine if the waterways in question in Laos.
It's rather more complicated when they are, released with the neighbouring countries, as the proposed Xayaburi dam and power plant.
It would be the first hydro project on the mainstream of the lower Mekong River.
Downstream are understandably concerned about the possible effects on them countries.
Cambodian concernIn Cambodia, fishing communities are concerned that she could see a catastrophic decline in stocks.
Sen Salim lives in a fishing village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
"This river is very important - if it helps many fish that are there for us to make a better life." He says "If there is less fish is bad for us,".
"If they made a dam in the great river, it would block the water flow - then the fish would be unable to migrate and breed."
It is a matter of national importance.
The average Cambodians protein requirement provides fish about four-fifths and millions of people rely on the Mekong River for their livelihood.
World Wildlife Fund says that the consequences of the mainstream dams not properly investigated.
The Mekong River Commission report proposed a 10-year moratorium on construction.
Secured, has, by community organizations - they suggest the alternative ways of generating electricity.
"We could have solar power, biomass, biogas and also small dams to the mainstream." The mainstream would have a major impact on millions of people.
"It's a disaster, if the decision is not carefully considered", Chhith Sam ATH said the NGO Forum on Cambodia by the parent organization.
Cambodia is the Mekong mainstream dams own planning and a lot more in Laos proposed.
The decision on the Xayaburi project is the key to it all.
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