splacement of thousands of poor people who live along the river. These types of damages are being revaluated to see if the benefits of these dams are superior to the environmental and social costs. The Comision of The Mekon river, an organization which normally defends development in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, said that “the ecosystem of the Mekong was deteriorating” and added: “If the current riddem of damage continues, the forests, the biodiversity, the existence of fish and quality of the soil will all be damaged to the point were recuperation will be impossible. For some years now, many Asian countries have looked at the Mekong River as an opportunity to generate electricity and with this be able to develop faster. Being that most of the regions around the rive are poor governments have looked at the Mekong as a way to produce money. China and Laos in particular have argumented about the potential the river can give them. China insists that the dams, created to give energy to cities in the province of Yunnan, wont damage the Mekong. And Beijing insists that the dams will be of benefit to countries south of the damn because it will equilibrate the flow of the river by controlling the quantities of water to be flown during droughts and flowd seasons. But people who oppose to this project ask what will happen if china is under a huge drought? Will they close the damn and stay with all the water living nothing to the countries on the south? Or what will happen if they suffer from an intense drought? Will they let all the water go causing inundations on the south? Some activist, are worried that Beijing already acts like the owner of the Mekong. China is not ready to change its plans for a negative impact outside its borders. Outside of China the sentiment towards the dams has changed considerable. The experts all agree that the dams kill wild life and the habitat of the fish. The environmentalists say that...
