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Study on the Impacts of Mainstream Hydropower on the Mekong River - Draft Impact Assessment Report: Impact Assessment Methods and Results – Summary Version

This document is a summary version of the Mekong Delta Study (MDS) Impact Assessment Report (IAR).

There have been constant worries that construction and operation of any or all of proposed hydropower dams projects could potentially have substantial and wide-ranging environmental and socio-economic effects in lower Mekong countries. In particular, there is tremendous concern over the impacts of the planned hydropower cascade on the downstream floodplains of Cambodia and Viet Nam. That led to a strong need that conduction of additional studies and analyses, using the most updated data and best available scientific tools, were a must to improve understanding of how the planned hydropower cascade would impact the natural and human environment and the socio-economic status and livelihood of tens of millions of people in the Mekong Delta.

Therefore, the Government of Viet Nam initiated the Study on the Impacts of Mainstream Hydropower on the Mekong River (also known as the Mekong Delta Study or MDS) to study the overall impact of the proposed LMB mainstream hydropower cascade on the natural, social, and economic systems of Cambodian and Vietnamese floodplains implemented in close cooperation with the Governments of Lao PDR and Cambodia. Accordingly, the primary objectives of the MDS were to evaluate changes projected to occur in the hydrological processes of the LMB resulting from the construction and operation of the planned mainstream hydropower cascade, and assess how these changes could potentially impact the human and natural environment in the Cambodian and Vietnamese floodplains.

Other objectives included developing a comprehensive database of relevant environmental, social, and economic conditions for the Lower Mekong River Basin, and seeking Basin wide consensus on the results of the impact assessment and determining avoidance and mitigation measures through close consultation with stakeholders.

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စာတမ်းအမျိုးအစား EIA/SEIA
စာရွက်စာတမ်း၏ ဘာသာစကား
  • အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာစကား
ခေါင်းစဉ်အတို (မူရင်းခေါင်းစဉ်နှင့်မတူသောခေါင်းစဉ်) Dự thảo báo cáo tóm tắt Nghiên cứu tác động của thủy điện dòng chính lên sông Mekong
ခေါင်းစဉ်များ
  • Environmental impact assessments
  • Hydropower dams
ပထဝီဧရိယာ (spatial range)
  • ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား
  • လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
  • ဗီယက်နမ်
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This summary of the MDS Impact Assessment Report was intended as a working document for an International Workshop on 4 December 2015 in Ho Chi Minh City, to be further improved for the MDS Final Report. No constraints of use were specified

ပြင်ဆင်ချက် Draft - Summary Version
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Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Government of Viet Nam monre.gov.vn

ရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်း) Anders Malmgren-Hansen,
ရေးသားသူ (အဖွဲ့) HDR (Mỹ)
ပူးတွဲရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ) Anwar Khan (DHI) and Kim Wium Olesen (HDR)
ပူးတွဲရေးသားသူ (အဖွဲ့) DHI (Đan Mạch)
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်နေရာ Vietnam
ထုတ်ဝေသူ Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်ရက်စွဲ 2015
စာမျက်နှာခွဲ 61
အဓိကစကားလုံးများ Lower Mekong Basin,social impact assessment,economic impacts,hydrological modeling,livelihoods
တင်ခဲ့သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ 12, 2018, 04:20 (UTC)
ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ 14, 2018, 05:17 (UTC)