Over at Deathpower in Cambodia, there is a discussion of capitalism, poverty and economic transformation. It is certainly worth a look.
Erik Davis warns:
The appropriation of the most important natural resource in mainland Southeast Asia – water – is perhaps the most important story going. The constant damming of the Mekong and other river systems means that less and less water comes downstream. Given that over two-thirds of Cambodia’s entire protein intake comes from fish (and specifically, from the Tonle Sap lake, which is fed by the waters of the Mekong river), this is a complete and total disaster.
In a country which the UN already lists as one of the world’s top twelve “Hunger Spots”, the food resource base is being further rapidly eroded.
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1 Erik Davis // Jan 30, 2007 at 6:04 am
Thanks for the note on my page, Nicholas. Water issues and sustainability are clearly a shared concern between our two pages, and worthy of a lot greater attention than they’ve hitherto experienced (at least, from those sectors with the loudest publication voices). Cheers, Erik
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