River
Mekong
Supports one of the world’s most productive inland fisheries. Upstream dam construction has altered its flood pulse, the seasonal rhythm on which that fishery and the Tonlé Sap lake system depend.
Key facts
- Length
- approximately 4,900 km
- Basin area
- approximately 795,000 km²
- People dependent on the basin
- over 60 million
Relationships
- Located in: Vietnam
Related intelligence
Sources
- World Wildlife Fund / McGill University — HydroSHEDS / HydroRIVERS / HydroLAKES / HydroBASINS. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted