Lao PDR - Nam Ou river - Young men and children playing in the river in Ban Tang

Young men and children playing in the Nam Ou river, Ban Tang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The Nam Ou river (a tributary of the Mekong) connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. It is a place where children play and families bathe, where men fish and women wash their clothes. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into the 'battery of Southeast Asia,' by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.

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Young men and children playing in the Nam Ou river, Ban Tang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The Nam Ou river (a tributary of the Mekong) connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. It is a place where children play and families bathe, where men fish and women wash their clothes. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into the 'battery of Southeast Asia,' by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.