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 | | This comes from dam operations in China," said Chainarong Setthachua, director of South East Asia Rivers Network, an environmental group. |
 | | Figures from the Mekong River Commission (MRC), a joint Lao, Cambodian, Thai and Vietnamese body set up to oversee the health of the 3,000 mile waterway, confirm that in some places the river is flowing close to rock bottom. |
 | | Many of the MRC's monitoring stations on the Mekong's long journey from the glaciers of Tibet to the 'rice bowl' of southern Vietnam reveal it is well below levels recorded in 1993, itself the lowest year in living memory. |
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