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	Salween River - LoveToKnow 1911
		This river, called Nam Kong by the Shans, Thanlwin by the Burmese, Lu Kiang, or Nu Kiang, or Lu Tzu Kiang by the Chinese, is the longest river in Burma, and one of the wildest and most picturesque streams in the world.
		The river is bridged by the Chinese on the main route from Teng Yileh (Momien) and Bhamo to Tali-fu.
		The chief tributaries of the Salween in British territory are the Nam Yu and the Nam Oi or Nam Mwe on the right bank, and the Hsipa Haw on the left.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Salween_River (1008 words)

	Salween River
		The Salween basin is a good case of river planning in advance of conflict.
		The Salween originates in the Tibetan plateau and drains an area of 320,000 km2 in China, Myanmar, and Thailand before it flows into the Gulf of Martaban.
		As mentioned, the Salween is a basin in its earliest stages of development.
	www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu /projects/casestudies/salween.html (376 words)

	Salween River Summary
		The Salween (Thanlwin) River is one of the major waterways of Myanmar (Burma).
		The Salween River (Burmese: သံလ္ဝင္‌မ္ရစ္‌; MLCTS: sam lwang mrac; also spelled Salwine) rises in Tibet, after which it flows through Yunnan, where it is known as the Nujiang river (Chinese: 怒江; pinyin: Nù Jiāng), although either name can be used for the whole river.
		The Salween is the longest undammed river in mainland Southeast Asia, and proposals to build several dams along it, mainly in Myanmar, are controversial.
	www.bookrags.com /Salween_River (724 words)

	Salween River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Salween River (Burmese: သံလ္ဝင္‌မ္ရစ္‌; IPA: [θànlwìn myiʔ]; also spelled Salwine) rises in Tibet, after which it flows through Yunnan, where it is known as the Nujiang river (Chinese: 怒江; pinyin: Nù Jiāng), although either name can be used for the whole river.
		On April 1, 2004, the Chinese premier halted the construction of 13 dams on the Salween in Yunnan.
		Hydrometeorological Approach to the Upper Salween River (USRB) - copyright by Christophe Lienert, Geographical Institute of the University of Berne and Kunming Institute of Botany
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salween_River (497 words)

	Hydrogeography of the Upper Salween River Basin USRB \| ...
		Hydrogeography of the Upper Salween River Basin USRB
		The USRB is located in southwest China and stretches from the tropical south-east in Yunnan Province to the sub-frigid semi-arid northwest in Xizhang (Tibet) province.
		The Salween river is, along with the Yellow river, Yangkzhe, Mekong, Indus and Bramaputra, one of the great rivers which has its source on the Tibetan plateau.
	www.salween.unibe.ch (206 words)

	Rafting and Kayaking the Salween River in Tibet, China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We are two rafts and six kayaks, experienced river runners drawn to the lure of a first descent in the most exotic and remote of settings.
		Averaging drops of 12 feet per mile, the river should be mild in its upper reaches where volume remains small but could become quite challenging when swollen to perhaps ten times this flow further downstream.
		China is busily engaged in dam construction on many of its major rivers and is pursuing an extensive range of economic development projects in Tibet.
	www.shangri-la-river-expeditions.com /journals/salween2000/bare.html (2581 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Salween (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A river port and commercial center, it has teak mills and shipyards; rice, tea, teak wood, and rubber are exported.
		Martaban, Gulf of, arm of the Andaman Sea, indenting S Myanmar and receiving the waters of the Sittoung and Thanlwin (Salween) rivers.
		The terrain is mountainous and is traversed by the Thanlwin (Salween), the principal river.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Salween (458 words)

	From Scorched Earth To Flooded Earth: The Generals' Dam On Burma's Salween River
		The plans for a major dam on the Salween in Burma's Shan State are a throwback to the brutish past of dam construction.
		Further displacement will occur as people flee the hopeless living conditions in relocation camps, the increasing abuses of the military, and the burden of forced labour, which is frequently cited by Burmese refugees in Thailand as a motive for leaving their home country.
		However, the planned Salween Dam represents an extreme case with regard to public participation and consultation in dam projects: the case where no such exercise is possible or, if undertaken, can be meaningful, due to the pervasive climate of fear created by the authorities' gross oppression of the affected population.
	www.asiasource.org /asip/salween.cfm (2597 words)

	BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SALWEEN MEGADAM
		It is a cold, fast flowing river that runs through earthquake-prone, lightly populated and steep mountainous areas for most of its course.
		The work is being done at a steep gorge an hour upstream of a major river crossing point called Ta Hsang on the road between Mong Pan and Mong Ton The gorge is a little distance south of the confluence of the Salween and the Nam Hsim River, one of the larger tributaries.
		Fish reproduction in the river, delta and along the coast, already affected by heavy fishing by foreign trawlers and clearance of mangrove forests would be further affected.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/SW01.htm (6828 words)

	Kayaking Tibet's Salween River on Wetdawg.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At the river, we found a smallish stream of swiftly flowing flatwater in a broad, glacially carved valley.
		Averaging 12 feet per mile, we anticipated the river to be mild in its upper reaches, where volume remained small, but thought it could become quite challenging when swollen to perhaps ten times the flow.
		But, the river was not quite through with us and the gradient increased as we once more entered a mini-canyon.
	www.wetdawg.com /pages/salween_1.html (923 words)

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		SALWEEN BASIN DAMS Since 1988, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) and the Thai goverment have been discussing the building of dams on border rivers between the two countries.
		However, the dams on the Salween annd its tributary, the Moei, are only a fraction of the total number of dams planned for the Salween basin.
		As much as 23,400 million cubic meters of water, amounting to 15-20% of the Salween's total annual flow, could be drawn from the mainstream of the Salween and Moei rivers to be carried via a network of tunnels and canals to the Bing and Chao Phaya rivers and their tributaries.
	www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca /dams/ASIA/SE-ASIA/Salween_Basin-Burma (1141 words)

	Our Mekong \| Mekong Through the IPS Wire
		In an effort to thwart this Chinese venture — to construct 13 dams on the Salween River — a broad spectrum of non-governmental groups have launched a campaign in December 2003 to expose the flaws in this 'development' scheme.
		Before damming the Salween, called the Nu river in China, the Chinese government needs to conduct environmental impact assessments (EIAs) not just internally but in downstream countries, says Chainarong Sretthachau, director of the South-east Asia Rivers Network (SEARIN), a regional environmental lobby based in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.
		The Chinese government, however, is not legally bound to seek the views of the two countries that share the Salween, since it has not signed an agreement on how to share the waters of this river that cuts across national boundaries.
	www.ipsnews.net /mekong/IPSWire/salween.html (978 words)

	Salween - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The river rises in Tibet Autonomous Region in China, where it is also known as Nu Jiang, and runs south through...
		In Southeast Asia the major rivers flow southward between mountain ranges.
		- river in Southeast Asia, flowing through China, including Tibet, and Myanmar (Burma).
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Salween.html (67 words)

	WWF - Salween River - A Global Ecoregion
		In wetlands along the Salween River, the fishing cat perches on banks and waits for fish to come near.
		The Salween River originates in the eastern highlands of the Tibetan Plateau and flows through valleys that are at first steep and narrow, then increasingly broad as the river approaches the tropical lowlands.
		The Salween runs parallel to the mighty Mekong River for much of its course and forms part of the border between Myanmar and Thailand.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/salween_river.cfm (282 words)

	Greater Mekong Subregion - Project Profiles - ADB.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The project aims to identify and study the hydropower resources of the mainstream and tributaries of the middle and upper reaches of the Thanlwin Basin suitable for supply of energy to Thailand and Myanmar.
		The river is favorably located for supply of energy to the power markets in the two countries.
		The project would involve a technoeconomic study of the river basin to determine its optimum hydropower development and the related transmission interconnection between Myanmar and Thailand.
	www.adb.org /gms/pp_e4.asp (289 words)

	Air Supply on the Salween River Front - WWII
		But whereas a dropping-space cut into the jungle was easily apparent from the air, a flat area in the rugged Kaoli Kung was a rarity, and difficult to locate among the jagged peaks.
		Some of the areas in which the battles were fought were never completely cloudless, and it was necessary for the pilot to find a gap in the clouds before he could locate his dropping target.
		By the time the Chinese Expeditionary Force and its Y-Force advisors and technicians crossed the Salween in their rubber assault boats, the Y-Force Air Dropping Detachment was prepared.
	www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil /WWII/air_supply_salween.htm (2196 words)

	USATODAY.com - China's premier orders dam review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Any decision to scrap plans for the dam on the Salween River would delight environmentalists who have lobbied against it and would please Thailand and Myanmar, which are planning their own dams and object to the Chinese project.
		The Salween is known in Chinese as the Nu.
		The Salween is one of three great rivers that originate in the Himalayas and traverse China's southern borders with Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-04-09-china-dam_x.htm (722 words)

	Hot News
		It was called the Salween River Offensive, named for the river which cut through an enormous gorge, whose cliffs rose 1,200 feet above the river and into which the Japanese had burrowed and entrenched their positions.
		The Salween Campaign was launched on the night of May 10, 1944, in that part of Yunnan Province occupied by the Japanese after they had crossed the Burma-China border in 1942 and had driven up the Burma Road to the Salween River.
		In the skies above the Salween and the river’s gorge were the P 40 Tomahawks with the grinning shark’s’ teeth painted on their fusilage, the signature of the famed Flying Tigers of the 14th U.S.Army Air Force.
	www.americanfarm.com /TopStory2.01.05c.html (1096 words)

	New Thailand Hydro Project: PM Backs Damming of Salween
		The mighty Salween originates high in the Tibetan mountains, flows through China's Yunnan province into Burma and forms the Thai border before emptying into the Andaman Sea 2,800 kilometres downstream.
		Egat sees the need for two 5,000-megawatt dams on the Salween where it runs along the Thai-Burmese border in Mae Hong Son province, and three more dams on the Burmese side, governor Sittiphorn Rattanophas said, citing studies by Japanese power giant J Power.
		Egat would propose the Salween project to a meeting of Asean power utilities scheduled for April 20-25, before submitting it to the Cabinet for approval, he said.
	www.geocities.com /suan_nok/khaothai/2546-04/THAS-salweendam-0303.html (503 words)

	IRN’s Nu (Salween) River Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Nu River is one of China’s last free-flowing rivers and is shared by China, Thailand, and Burma.
		This unique ecosystem and the communities that depend on it for their survival are threatened by plans to construct a 13-dam cascade on China’s portion of the river.
		Known as the Salween River in Burma and Thailand, the Nu River stretches over 3,200 kilometers from its origins on the Tibetan Plateau to its delta at the Andaman Sea in Burma.
	www.irn.org /programs/nu (846 words)

	[SWAN]Shan Women's Action Network
		The mighty Salween River flows for 2,400 kilometres from the Himalayan foothills through the Shan, Karenni, Karen and Mon States of Burma into the Indian Ocean.
		But now the Salween River is in danger of being dammed.
		The Burmese military regime and the Thai government are planning to build a series of dams along the Salween River which will have devastating social and environmental impacts.
	www.shanwomen.org /dam.html (439 words)

	SALWEEN WATCH HOTMAILOUT
		The conditions of the reservoir produces changes in the physical and chemical characteristics of the water, including pH balance, turbidity, oxygen levels, and temperature both in the reservoir and downstream of the dam when water is released through the dam's turbines.
		If the river were transformed into a reservoir, most of these fish species would be extirpated by the reservoir, as will many of the fish species living downstream of the dam due to the ecological impacts of altered water flow and the poor quality of water released from the reservoir.
		The entire length of the river is about 2,400 km and the total drainage area of the basin is about 320,000 km2.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/SW05.htm (4769 words)

	The Salween River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Salween, the mainland Southeast Asia’s longest undammed river, travels 2,800 kilometers from the Tibetan Plateau through Yunnan Province of China, the Shan and Kayah States of Burma, along the Thai-Burma border, and eventually into the Indian Ocean in the Mon State of Burma.
		In addition to the projects planned on the mainstream Salween in Thailand and Burma, China recently announced plans to build a cascade of 13 dams on the Nu River (Nujiang), the portion of the Salween River that flows in China
		Salween Dams in Burmar and on Thai-Burmese border
	www.searin.org /salween_en.htm (638 words)

	dam-l LS: Appeal for action on Salween Dam
		APPEAL FOR SOLIDARITY ACTION ON THE SALWEEN MEGA-DAM PROJECT After years of talk but little action, there are now strong indications of serious efforts on behalf of Thai, Burmese and Japanese companies to gain approval and funds for damming the mighty Salween River in Burma.
		The dam is being planned to divert water from the Salween into Thailand, as well as to produce an estimated 3,300 to 3,600 megawatts of electricity for Thailand and Burma.
		The gorge is a little distance south of the confluence of the Salween and the Nam Hsim River, one of the larger tributaries.
	www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca /lists/html/dam-l/2000/msg00565.html (3544 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news - Dam the Salween, damn its people
		The Salween dam project is the latest in a series of megaprojects Myanmar's military junta has secured with energy-starved Asian nations.
		Pianporn Deetes, spokesperson for the Salween Watch Coalition, an umbrella group monitoring the situation, said the biggest worry is the potential human impact of the dams.
		The Salween, which originates in the Tibetan Plateau and snakes its way through China, Myanmar and Thailand, is widely recognized as one of the most diverse biological environments in the world.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/HI15Ae01.html (1566 words)

	The Mekong River
		The Mekong River is one of the world's 10th rivers in its river length and has great influences upon nature and societies of the Indo-china Peninsula.
		The source of the Mekong River is in Tibet mountains and is called Dza Chu River (River of Rock).
		Therefore this river is often called 'The Danube in Asia' due to its difficulty as an international river.
	cantho.cool.ne.jp /mekong/outline/mekong_river_e.html (1247 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		The Chinese government, however, is not legally bound to seek the views of the two countries that share the Salween, since they have not signed an agreement on how to share the waters of this river that cuts across national boundaries.
		Some groups have petitioned Beijing to go slow on it the Salween is among the few undammed rivers in China, is close to rich heritage sites and is not really necessary, he told regional water conference in Thailand in November.
		Some have reported a decrease in the river's fish stock, a main source of food and income for the millions living in the Mekong basin.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=21668 (974 words)

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