'mekong Delta Will Be Partly Submerged'

[scoobydoo]

Colorado river has 3 dams I can think of, glen canyon hoover and parker.....surely has screwed things up?

[baa99]

Colorado river has 3 dams I can think of, glen canyon hoover and parker.....surely has screwed things up?

 

It certainly has! The river rarely makes it to the sea. Mexico has been screwed big time.

 

[Flashermac]

The US does it because it knows Mexico can do nothing about it. Same same with China.

[Flashermac]

Look, the Mekong delta is under severe threat -- from all the dams being constructed on the river. That stops the silt from flowing down the river and replenishing the delta. Just look at the Nile delta for a peek into the future.

 

Prior to the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, more than 120 million tonnes of silt washed down the Nile each year and accumulated in its delta. Without this annual silt flow to replenish it, the Nile Delta is shrinking – in some places the coastline is receding by as much as 175 metres a year.

 

 

Similar problem in Louisiana.

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12617123.900-the-incredible-shrinking-mississippi-delta.html

 

http://blog.skytruth...ippi-delta.html