Monitoring Surface Water Storage Changes over The Lower Mekong with Multiple Satellite Techniques Towards Sustainable Water Management
| Meeting | VIWC2026 |
| Topic | Project Plaza |
| Author | Hyongki Lee | Duong Du Bui |
| Organization | University of Houston | National Central for Water Resources Planning and Investigation (NAWAPI) |
| ID | 2022.1672198697 |
Content
The fresh water resource in lower Mekong is confronted with challenges due to uncoordinated human activity in the upstream regions, such as extraction, diversion and dam impoundment of river waters. Due to the planned development, the dry season water level would rise, and the wet season water level would become lower, relative to the current condition. Consequently, the active and planned hydropower development would threaten the livelihood of about 40 millions of people in the lower Mekong who depend on wild-caught fish and rice as major nutrition sources. The risk become exacerbated due to lack of resilient capacity of the co-riparian countries to manage the water resources under the current socio- economic development pressures and more frequent extreme flood and drought events.
Surface Water, The Lower Mekong, Satellite Techniques
