Is Cambodia's Thirst For Energy Destroying The Mekong River? | Once Upon A River | CNA Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- The Mekong is known as the mother of all rivers. It feeds more than 80 million farmers and fishermen across its trans-national length. But tensions are rising with the construction of a series of Chinese funded dams upstream, with some suggest, are causing draughts and dwindling fishing catches for downstream communities.
We traverse Cambodia to understand the needs of fast growing economy which expects an 80 percent in electric demand over the next 20 years. What impact will this development have on the environment and water security in the region? On this journey, we also meet communities displaced by these dams. As climate change forces people to choose between protecting nature or their own economic survival, what is the future Mekong's river communities? And will technological solutions be implemented quickly before it is too late for riverine communities?
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Singapore used to import a lot for sand from neighboring countries including Cambodia. Infact, the major portion of the import was from Cambodia.
I think mostly from Indonesia
yes very strange why cna did this documentary but even stranger is how they have people who dunno anything.
@@honesttruth8710 Indonesia and Malaysia had banned it already.
Singapore didn't manage to import a lot of sand from Cambodia as Singapore has wished. Local developments of the new casino cities and the capital needed a lot more sand than Singapore wanted hence exporting was banned to curb rising sand cost.
@@ernestkj n now they're trashing Cambodia lol
I don't judge them, poor countries need to develop too, it's kinda unfair wealthy countries pollute so much, but poor countries not.
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The government should teach people to fish-farming instead of directly fishing, such as building more ponds. China has banned fishing in the Yangtze River for ten years
rich countries have destroyed all their wetlands for development.
Now they tell poor countries not to develop, so the west can benefit.
I think so, good idea!
Rich western countries don't want poor countries to develop. They rather give you just enough aid to keep you alive and weak so that you would perpetually dependent on them. It's a form of neo-colonialism. Whereas China will assist the poor countries in their development without strings attached. Because China is powering forward to help poor countries develop, the west goes on a relentless blitz to demonize China.
This fisher man is very funny like saying, “ we don’t know know where the fish gone”. When 10 years ago, this type of people use electric to shock those fish and they didn’t mention it.
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Typical western media. They will say anything out of context to demonize development. They want you to stay poor.
@@thomaskim3128 Ofc, it was as you stated.
@@thomaskim3128 the western countries you talk about have gone through these development states ages ago. Development is not bad but when you don't have regulations set in place it can be bad both for nature and people living there.
Not only electric my friends bomb too . Country needs electricity for the future .fishing live has been around thousands of years. Time to lost something and trade to something better.I personally believe change. Maybe better for people.
I do admire the effort to produce this documentary and I admit I learnt a lot of things. But there were several things mentioned in this video that were not true. E.g. 1. Tatay Dam is not sitting along side the Mekong river it's actually in Koh Kong which is in the Southwest of Cambodia. 2. The flood in October 2020 was also not caused by rainfall that flew from the Mekong river either. Because the flooded area was on the Southwest side of Phnom Penh which nowhere near the Mekong or Tonle Sap stream at all.
This channel seems to criticize most Asian countries, exception of Singapore. I guess now we know what CNA stands for.
Really...!!!. hmmmm.. many sovereign government of the world ....TH-cam are just noise.. hmm
CNA shows issue with countries including Singapore, just click on the channel and can easily find Singapore's issue. The real question is, why are you being selective in what you are believing?
The world is following Colorado River example.
You are so Right....
US took mexico territory and now their water
The Chinese-built dam they profile, Stung Tatay, isn't anywhere near the Mekong river. Also, Cambodia recently agreed not to build any dams on the Mekong. Many of the problems are due to Chinese dams in Laos and further upriver in PRC.
So many dams have been built in western/developed countries. CNA of course gives us new insight, but i can see what they want to show.
May God Bless Cambodia!.. greetings from the Philippines❤💯🙏🙏
the Rich’s getting richer , but the poor are dying
And when you get no electricity, you blame the government.
A direct example of our species social structure choose to live as independent sovereign nation states... Hmmmm...
Why can't we just see our selves as a species of humanity population..
Nothing wrong with a single governing structure a single financial systems a single currency a single reserve bank and printing money to offset inequality between nations and people... So our species social structure can be free...
And transparency can apply to our natural world environment as well.. and yes.. all the world rivers can be free too..😔
The Rich get richer -. G the poor get the picture 😳
@@pennyoflaherty1345 aww man.. I get just the picture.. and the rich are making money off pictures..??😭😭😭🐒☮️
i don't understand what does hydropower dam in koh kong have to do with mekong river, it's literally on the other side of the country.
Not meant for you but for fools around the world.
Pls cna news about farakka dam in india who create heartly impact on Bangladesh. Cna news can not because india is partner
I'm curious as to why this docu spent so long setting up the issues but only offered a small scale solar solution for rural Mekong communities? As a freshwater ecologist i think that hydropower might be one of the most destructive forms of power but there isn't a clear alternative in this case
ប្រទេសខ្ញុំក្រីក្រ កំពុងអភិវឌ្ឍន៍ ត្រូវការថាមពលអគ្គីសនីចាំបាច់ណាស់សម្រាប់ការប្រើប្រាស់ប្រចាំថ្ងៃ បែរជាប្រទេសអភិវឌ្ឍន៍ហាមនេះហាមនោះខ្លាចប៉ះពាល់បរិស្ថាន ទាំងដែរពួកគេបានបំផ្លាញរាប់សិបទស្សវត្សរួចហើយនោះ!...
Do you want us to burn a shiton of coal instead? Or maybe you guy provide us all those expensive solar or wind panel? Cambodia is in a massive 10 years leap forward via Belt and road. We need energy.
yeah with 99year deal with china u will lost ur country soon, just like vietnam.
@@thiennguyen-vc8zn Out of all the SEA nation I think Vietnam is the last to fall into China hand
But what good is development if you don’t have a nation of the people in the forefront of its progress? Look at this country, it’s gone through hell and has taken decades to remotely recover from its past. So many poor and so little opportunity to even remotely make a decent living honestly for many in the country. All I see here is creation of a larger gap between the rich and the poor. If they want to get this belt made it better come with perks for Khmer people for generations to come. I doubt that’s the case here though...
Bascially all the renewable energy has its problem but the general public just want to hear the good things.
Development is good for Cambodia. What else they suppose to do import tons of oil that would even be worse! This gives them a cheap source of energy to power their people!
To care for the entire country’s needs of electricity or to care for the few thousand families of fishermen?
I support the energy dam development.
Norm, that's because your a d!ckhead and show a clear lack of foresight or ingenuity.
This is the 21st century, people, regardless of their race, ethnicities and culture want a better living standard. And the only way to achieve that is to industrialise, and in order to industrialise, one must have sufficient amount of energy and hydroelectric is perfect as it is renewable. These are not animals we are talking about you know? They should not live in abject poverty just to preserve the way of life of their ancestors, they deserve respect and are not to be gawked upon by tourists from the developed countries like some exotic beasts.
Poor country developing
Western Media: Cambodia’s Thirst for Energy, lol
Money DRAGONS. TOO !! Hungary to bite not considering Final Outcomes later- much Later down in time. Irreversible Damage & loss of many - absolute Monopoly.
I prefer they use hydropower instead of coal power.
At the expense of Vietnam at the end of the river right? 😥
really appreciate the documentary, got more info than many local news and media in Cambodia. they broadcast only good, good , good
Koh kong dam has nothing to do with Mekong. It is meant for gullible people like you. Wake up to their ulterior motives.
@@joeawk emm, okay? but I didn't say about Koh kong .
Never talk about Singapore issues?
In the west, provision is made where-by the fish are able to circumvent the dams and continue their journey upstream.
Rich country have destroyed many things in the world .. you need to destroy your building first and change to plant tree ..
Oh my country! I never see this video!
Knowledge:
2700 kWh of electricity = 1 ton standard coal
Burning 1 ton coal produces 2.7 tons CO2.
For every 2,700 kWH of electricity produced by hydropower stations, humans will reduce 2.7 tons CO2.
Lol, pretty stupid conclusion.
@@bahamut149 bravo !!
And should Solar POWER reduce it considerably M o r e , .......W H Y don’ t. Western Governments lead by example for bettering All community & public housing ......instead of S. T. R. A. I. N. I. N. G. BANK MONOPOLIES ??!!
Go Greta Dumberg
Tatay Dam Hydropower was not built across the Mekong River, But it built in Koh Kong Province in Southwest of cambodia Which is not relate to the Mekong River. Please check it again.
For the gullible, not for you n me.
Hardly any bit truthful.
ប្រទេសអ្នកមាន បំផ្លាញ់ធម្មជាតិ ខ្លាំងជាងគេ
It is time to consider fish farming in Tonle Sap n to go out for sea fishing.
Cambodia is a inland country, no coastal line.
@@kumababara1631 no. We are not laos
@@mangling2751 Oh, I am sorry
Everytime listen to this cna insider about Asia, what I know that some they did say true but some aren’t true.
Many problem actually is the dam from Laos, the Cambodia government doesn't build any dam on the mekong river!
Under the leadership of Hun Sen ,Cambodia has been developed so fast (corruption). His family and friends are super rich while we're living on shoestrings.
So you mean is not letting us develop is that what you mean? You can’t blame it on one person. We have to change our perspective on how we execute the development of our country. Blaming on him doesn’t make the country better, overthrowing him also doesn’t make it better. We just have to teach the younger generation not to be involved with corruption. The corruption isn’t only an issue with modern Cambodia, the corruption happened centuries ago in Cambodia and has been passed on throughout generations. And if we can teach the younger generations to not do it then it’s great. So don’t blame everything on him. Even if his decision isn’t very correct some times but he’s human and human makes mistakes. I mean without his help, you probably won’t be alive right now. And if you still is not convinced by what I am saying, maybe go lead the country if you think he’s doing a terrible job. Because if you go to school which I think you do, then you would learn that leading a group especially a group that is 16 million people isn’t easy.
Just take action and change the mindset of the younger generation and get them education and everything will be fine. Because the older generation will eventually retire
Love her voice love cambodia
Love the profile pic
@@akoden2667 thx brother
អរគុណបង👏
while Singapore used to bought millions of meter cube of sand to develop their country and never see CNA report.
Glad my Khmer grandson got to see the awesome Irrawaddy Dolphins in 2009... 🐬😢 His children will never have that luxury.
Omg. So sad. I still remember live in Cambodia
the woman who was showing her damage motorcycle was choosing her words carefully trying not offend those highly connected development project which are contributing to the floods.
there are sad stories behind the miracle development in cambodia :(
The fundamental issue is human population growth and human desires with increasing consumption habits.
River basin development and national development need to be looked at holistically. Freezing other parameters to discuss apparent impacts assuming only one parameter is operating can give misleading results.
Given population growth and increasing material demand are inevitable, what is left is for those in government and regulators to mitigate and balance impacts, until the earth cannot sustain such demands anymore.
In fact, Cambodia don't have any dam along mekong river but we see only Laos has dams along river which affect on water flow
It's really more advantages than disadvantages
Sustainability of economic development in Mekong river is the key takes of needs of the community who living near the river.
As a Cambodia people we didn't get any interest from this, the Government and Leader take it all. It's a shame.
Cambodia 🇰🇭 thank to the Chinese for build electric dam for the Cambodia people
Cambodia thanks to #CCPchowchow is going to be used & abused - all too willing to bow down to #emperorXi.
There are dozen of dams along the Mekong river from Lao to China which kills us. Cambodia needs the domestic source of energy supplies since over 60% of energy supplies are imported and that cost the people a lot. The energy cost per kilo watt in Cambodia cost perhaps more than LA.
CAMBODIA have right to build that dam like AMERICA build dam in COLORADO river !!!
For every action there is a benefit and a downside. If Cambodia decided electricity is more important than fishing, who are we to judge?
CNA masters doesn't want asean to develop
Laos cambodia and thailand all chinese colonies. Nothing will be done to prevent the mekongs downfall. Vietnam has bad luck having such neighbors.
Like Laos, Cambodia relies heavily on the Chinese so-called "expertise". In short run these countries are paying the heavy price. Casinos are growing like mushrooms and drawing epic numbers of Chinese settlers.
Southeast asia has had Chinese coming to live there for a very long time it isnt a recent thing
❤❤super great ❤❤
What good are human beings doing to the Nature. Such a shame :(
What's the point of documenting it from Cambodia which is a downstream and not China which is at upstream? Bias much?
I WILL PROTECT YOU CAMBODIA
Should be asking to China, what did China do on the Mekong river??
CNA if you care to dig deeper can you compare the number of fishermen 10years ago and now? Further more last time was small scale fishing have you went there lately and see the large scale fishing by big corps around that area?
35:40 "-fish increased!" uhu. Literally no dam in the history of humankind has increased river-fish (but sometimes pond- and lake-fish which are a different thing entirely). It's so daunting watching dictatorships lie blatantly, then again so does american oil- and coal, and Indians regarding Bengal and Ghanges.
good luck
nature always win
“Where the fishes gone”? you depleted them.
Water recession from building the dams in China and Laos.
All we see are future flood victims just like we saw in Laos. Not worth the effort when your natural beauty environment are gone, your own citizens were forced to abandon their houses which they had called homes for centuries and end up being flood victims. The benefit? Only a portion of the $ generated from these damps will go to the pocket of the corrupt government. The majority of the money will go to the company that built and invested the damps, most likely China. The majority of Cambodia citizen get nothing but just paying monthly electricity bills. Finding fish down stream become harder for the local and paying more electricity bills make life more miserable for the Cambodia citizens. The winner? The company and the corrupted Cambodia government. The citizens just need to voice their opinions and " Say No " to the damp if they have any choice. Sad.
Luckily Cambodia 🇰🇭 doesn’t have Earthquakes and Volcano eruption....Just only flood it doesn’t matter.....Cambodia Go ! Go ! 💸💸💸💸
The entire Mekong river journey from China till it joins south China Sea , all these regions must be a COMPLETE FOREST BASED LIVING to bring Sustainability.
As a Cambodian, I can clearly know why CNA published this stupid document about Cambodia and I know what is really behind theirs back for doing so , they are no different from western media now ,
They’re prob Corrupt as HADES & BANKS
The Chinese invasion of its poor neighbors., 1 kilowatt and apartment building at a time.
Nomadic life style must move on. Because of them the whole nation must stay behind? Now is 21 century.
21 century... And yet, people uses faith and religions to do politics and not science...
there is no salvation from heavens.
It’s a double edged sword here? Industrialization of Cambodia will also be the demise of their wetlands and its eco systems over progress for more houses and electricity? It doesn’t seem like a national interest of the people but more so for capital. The floods will continue, rural people will be displaced, and outside foreign investors will continue to pour in. Don’t mistaken progress as an absolute positive. The citizens in these areas suffer the most with a lack of support from their government during flooding . I help donate what I can but this the price for progress.
@@Kiyoone Faith in the developed countries have been dying what do you mean? its msotly in poor countries that people do this
How about China and Lao dams ??? It’s totally unfair for Cambodia !
នៅភ្នំពេញមានគំលាតគ្នាច្រើនចំពោះអ្នកមាននឹងអ្នកក្រ តែបើប្រទេសជាតិមិនបើកការអភិវឌ្ឍន៏ជាតិសំរាប់បរទេសទេ គឺប្រទេសយើងពុំទាន់មានលិទ្ធភាពជួយខ្លួនឯងទាន់សម័យបានដែរ គ្រប់យ៉ាងពួកយើងក៏សប្បាយចិត្តក្នុងការមានគំរោងធំៗនាៗចូលមកអភិវឌ្ឍន៏ស្រុកយើងនប្រជាជនយើងទទួលបានគឺការងារពីគំរោងទាំងនោះ។
Rivers are for nature to thrive not wallets
Informative and insightful!
Им нужна дешевая энергия для развития. Сейчас они ее покупают у соседей.
Electricity does play big part in modern day but people rely on food and water to live not electricity
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Did you check the geography of my country before posting this?
Well there’s other ways to produce electricity.
More efficient governments have realized that hydroelectric dams destroys the natural environment for fish so realizing this some governments are removing dams and will not build any new dams and have started to reconstruct the rivers back into their natural state to bring back nature and life that lives in the rivers.
So all these projects and man made infrastructure projects on and in the Mekong River changing the natural flow and depths can say goodbye to the fish and to life as you know it.
Once it’s filled It’s all over !
When people criticize modernization of underdeveloped countries, especially the western medias, one argument they usually used is that building this will destroy local living style. Well, why don’t you backwards to the living style your ancestors had before the industrialization? I believe no human beings should live in this kind of condition unless they choose to. Unfortunately, that fact is that those fish men do not have a choice. I hope their kids will have a choice. Yes, the history of human being is the history of how human fight against the “nature mother”. Until very recently, the Industrial Revolution granted human the power to modify our environment what could not be imagined a few hundreds years ago. We are agree that this kind of power should be used with caution. However, please stop using this argument, it is nonsense from the point of view of the people living in underdeveloped areas.
Cambodia
End of the worlds. Human destroy ownself.
Dying for energy means the economy is booming. Simple. Industrialization will bring much more treasures than fishing. Period.
It’s not Cambodia’s thirst. It’s China building the dams in Cambodia and using Cambodia an energy generation outsourcing department.
CNA Insider no electric how to develope the country ？
😭😭😥😥😥It’s so embarrassing to see this happened in my motherland
How ??? This hydro plant is for people that needed across the country . This is what Cambodia lack of . Also we have no money to built those solar system .
I hope the dam can withstand the test of time...not wanting it to be as fragile as 3 gorgeous dam 🤣
Faked news. Haha 😃😃😆😆
Keep crying 3gorgeous stands tall like cpec and bri are 💪
Instead of installing power plants in Cambodia, Khmer government should've resort to free energy sources like solar energy. Destroying Cambodia landscape for foreign INC blueprint which you / we don't even know it will work 100 percent. By the look of this documentary, these Foreigners INC failed....
The city will likely sink over with the dredging problem, it's flooding now.
The hydropower plan has been canceled. Now we need China and Laos to participate.
Are the fishes drowning because of the dams?
Those houses built, for PRC people to move into, right?
Piscivores at risk. 🎣(2:45, 30:05)
7:30 Paving and sanding over. 🏗(19:19)
24:34 Poor substitutes for ancestral abodes. 🏘
36:30 Cut, slash, and burn. 🌴🪚🔥
42:30 Renewable energy on micro-grids. ☀⚡
Greed and overpopulation are fueling these cataclysmic conditions.
Not greed. Not overpopulation. It is necessity n dignity.
🤣🤣there are reasons solar is not reliable energy
especially in tropical environment
rain, typhoon is one problem, cost for repair and the frequency/possibility of damage is another one, also the battery will be degraded. so yes, people can use it with compensation by the govt in poor villages, its totally useless in city and any places required development
secondly, i alway thought it is hypocrisy the west(and the world society) require environment protection and slow down development while not paying that state to preserve the environment. the world should pay those countries for not harvest the forest, or destroy the environment, not using ethnic demand to force it
lastly, in order to "protect" the river, govt should assist people to build fish farm, not just let them fish in the river, as we can see in the vid, they catch everything even the small fish
I work in the solar industry. Big company are willing to cut down trees and relocate the locals to make room for solar pv modules then promote themselves as being green, boosting how much CO2 reduce, how much tree saved, contributing to the enviroment and all the bullshit.
Tonle sap was filled with human waste. So many people living on the lake. Yuck 🤮!
The people on the lake catch every thing from baby to adult. They must move on.
Electricy is still expensive for a poor country
Tropical or semi tropical climate countries must depend mainly on solar energy instead of the fragile hydro energy from Dams that could be used as a tool of proxy wars
People complain being poor, and won't compromise to be developed... You can't have the cake and eat it too. Or you can go nuclear energy if you can afford it.
Did anyone complain about being poor during the whole documentary? How did these skyscrapers and dam benefits these odinary people?
@@trananh4415 Sufficient energy is the key factor for developing country. Without it, it would be an underdeveloped nation(poor).
How could destruction itch all the world?
No construction s along rivers
Singapore... Sigh !
Excuse me !!! The end of the Mekong River is VietNam's sea, is the East Sea of Vietnam. Not the South of china sea ( at 2:01). How can a big channel like this say that??? #hoangsatruongsabelongtoVietNam.
The chinese up river can rot in hell. How much are they responsible for the decimation of the Meking Delta?
This isn't a dig towards Cambodia, but it seems the people that require the least from modern technology, have to give the most up to it. I mean these people live an almost carbon neutral life. I don't know, but it's just really unfair.
we need electric power to sustained economic growth..to lift people from poverty...obviously more birth rate every year...more fish they consume..how about fish farming just to give mekong river fish a break for once...birth control is the key if we dont like sudden change by our government...they only want, what is the best of us.... coz we are there life line for the country GDP Growth..we are living in the 21 century....technology are available why not use it...ask the rich country how they become rich...if we dont want to be slave with developed country we need to be educated..the world is changing dont get used to the old way of living otherwise were doomed as a human being..technology farming is the anwer of continue growing population....cheers..... god bless us all......
How about many condos are empty. It becomes the ghost buildings, take Sihanouk Ville as an example? We are thirsty to build more and more and don't look at the environment. Some buildings aren't even a standard one, and these illegal buildings kill innocent people. I don't see what is the purpose of this kinds of development.