Water everywhere

Sunset over the Mekong River at Kompong Cham

Alongside property and oil speculation, increasing costs of rice supplies and all the usual headlines that hit the newswires over here every day, the subject of water is never far behind. The biggest worry right now is the prospect of numerous dams on the Mekong River and the potentially devastating effect that might have on livelihoods and fish supplies in Cambodia.
To keep you in the picture regarding recent press reports, here's a few links that will highlight the current concerns:
Eric Coull in the Bangkok Post with his article, The Mekong: Charting a sustainable future here.
Rob Sharp's A Poisoned Paradise: Cambodia's Water Crisis, for the Independent in the UK here.
Asia Times' Andrew Nette's article called Cambodian dam plans suffer information drought here.
and finally Ek Madra's article Chinese dams threaten Cambodia's forests, farmers here.