Houayxay, Laos – Fishing today a Laotian fisherman, which is made of floating home, metal and forest on the mecong river.
“I caught two cats,” 52-year-old told Al Jazeera, takes for inspection.
Simple Simple Xoning If he needs to be strong on this powerful river: A fire to warm a fire, and though there are a few pills and a few.
What khon is not always fish.
“The days I don’t have something. Sorry,” he said.
“The water level always changes due to bends. And now they are rivers, in Myanmar.
Xon lives in the northern West Bokeo Bokeo on the Mekong river.
This distance area has been very long for drug production and smuggling.
It is held in universal scrambles for gold and rare ground and rare for the production of new technologies and in everything from the smartphones for electronic cars.
In the past, the rivers in this area, such as Ruak, Sai and Kok – All Mekong Compensation – According to Thailand Control Department, Arsenic levels, leading, nickel and manganese.
Arsenic, especially, from the world’s security boundaries have spent the world’s security limits for the communities of health rivers for compensation communities.
These varies are directly spread from parts on the main areas of the river directly. The effects found in Laos, to announce the statement of the Mekong River who communicates the situation “gently seriously.
“Testing of formal climate of climate clearly states that the Mekong River on the Thai-Lao border,” Pianporn Office, Director of South Campaign
“This alarm is just the first part of the crisis, if I continue,” Pianporn said.
“The fishermen who have been reduced to the new cats are a topic of local public health, and urgent action from government,” added it.
Source of heavy risk in Myanmar’s Shan State, which is not randomly disabled because of the explanation of the rice ground minerals over the global.
Zachary Abuza, a professor in the College of National War in Washington and Asia Special, said as much as 20, the rest on the best year of the Year.
Myanmar is currently four years since the border area, which is approved by two powerful armed groups: the Restoration Council of Shan (RCS) and the US Army (UWSA).
Myanmar’s military government has a “real control”, Abuza said, other than arresting the city of Tacileik, between Thailand and Myanmar.
Neither RCSS nor UWSA are “Junta war”, he said:
“In this vacuity, mining explodes with Chinese traders. The army in Naypyidaw may not allow the environmental rules, but they still have earning their sharing,” Abuza said.
‘Alarm collapse’
Length of mines is not the loneliness of the moonlight.
For years, the health of the river has been destroyed by a hydroprophed damage chain
In the upper reach of the Mekong, inside China, including Dozens of Hydrophath Hydro, including Khaowa and Nuozhadu dams, which is called a large river river.
More than underground, Laos has received his economic future on Hydropa.
According to the Mekong Bend, which is run by the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, now in Laos – Xayaburi and Don Sahong – Raster on the main river.
As a rule, HydropleLlower is a clean alternative.
But Ruken leads to the Mekong dam to another type of environment.
According to WWF and Mekong River Mekong Mekong Mekong Mekong Mekong Mekong Mekong has supported 60 million people and provided 25 percent of the world’s salt water.
RO, one in five types of fish is risky in Mekong, and rivers rivers are severely reduced, as the document on the eye of the monitor monitor monitor and research monitor and research is deducted by international rivers.
“The removal of alarm in Mekong is a quick call to save this way and Pacific economies Lan Mercado said the fishing of the 2024 Mechanical Report.
In Houayxay, the capital of Bokeo, markets mostly appeared in a new visit.
In Kad Warg View, the core market of the city were almost deserted.
“Maybe this evening, or maybe tomorrow,” Mali, a guest in the 60’s. In front of her, Mali had hit a small circle of fish, it may hope that the scene is visible for potential customers.
In another market, Sydonemy, only outside Houayxay town, the story was one. Fishes were naked.
“Sometimes fish comes, sometimes they don’t. We just wait,” Another vendor said.
“Here was Giant’s fishing here,” Vilasai, 53 reminded that from a fishing family but now works as a taxi driver.
“Now gives us a little river. Even water is afraid for use.
‘The river used’
Ian G Baird, Professor of South Asia studies at Wisconsin-Madison University, the top bars – especially in China – There are serious influences in Thailand and Laos in Thailand and Laos.
“Ecosystem and life that is connected to the river with special hydraulic conditions,” Baird said to Al Jazeera.
“But because the dams were made, they have changed dramatic conditions.
Another biggest impact of the river nature of the river.
“Now there’s more water in the rainy season and rarely decreases in the rainy season. It explained the annual ecological ecological implications,” Baird.
“The dams hold water during the rainy season and released in the dry season to increase energy product and interest and destroy the ecological functionality of the river,” he said.
Bun Chan, 45, with his wife Nanna Kuhd, 40, on a float house near Houayxay. He sells fishing when his wife is whatever he is taking on local market.
During this morning, he again and once again and once again – but for something.
“It looks like I’m not going to do anything today,” Bun Chan told Al Jazeera as he dropped his free network.
“I got some other day,
Hom Phan was a fisherman’s fish over all his life.
It takes its forest ship across the river, followed the road that he knows by Instinct. In some river areas, now it is now a strong force saying everything is under, 67 years old.
Around him, quietly only broken with your small motorized motto and remote bird calls.
“The guessed River was now. Now we don’t know when it will rise or break up,” Hom Phan said.
“The fish cannot see their spawning based. They disappear.
Nightly in Houayxay, and Xon, Fisherman, draws his nests and prepares dinner in his snow house.
When she waits to buy fire to make a meal, he is silent about the great river.
Despite the dams in China, in the miners in the neighbors, and the increase in the field where he was thinking about healing when thought of the next day of the fisherman.
With his eyes on the waters that fled under his house, he said with a smile, “We will try again tomorrow.”
