A year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor shows the extent of the impact on Southeast Asia's longest river. A conversation with Brian Eyler of the Stimson Center.

not Southeast Asia, became the first to dam the main stem of the river. ThailandThe hunger for electricity in Thailand is driving dam construction on the lower Mekong in Laos and Cambodia.

It’s water that’s been stored behind a dam.” River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand ...