This presentation is created to be used in an on-line teaching course of Southeast Asian Studies. This course is offered only to a group of wonderful students of Lodi High School, Wisconsin, USA.
1. MEKONG RIVER
THE LIFE-GIVING RIVER
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2. What do you know about the
Mekong River?
✤ Group Work
✤ Make a list of facts and information
you think you know about the
Mekong River
✤ No TALKING
3. Facts:The Mekong
✤ The longest river of SEA
✤ 4,900 kilometers / 3,000 miles
✤ From Yunnan to South China Sea
✤ China, Myanmar, Laos,
Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
✤ 44% of its course is in China.
10. The Life-Giving River
2 %
16 %
35 %
18 %
18 %
11 %
✤ 60 million people
✤ Lower Mekong Basin - Laos,
Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
✤ Connected to river’s natural cycles
✤ 80% of protein needs
✤ Diverse, productive inland fisheries
✤ 2.6 million tons a year
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11. What makes the Mekong
special?
✤ Rise and fall of water levels during
wet/dry seasons
✤ Flood carries fertile silt.
✤ Horticulture, agriculture in Mekong
Delta
✤ Productive rice farming in Thailand,
Vietnam
12. What makes the Mekong
special?
✤ Rise and fall of water levels during
wet/dry seasons
✤ Flood carries fertile silt.
✤ Horticulture, agriculture in Mekong
Delta
✤ Productive rice farming in Thailand,
Vietnam
13. What makes the Mekong
special?
✤ Rise and fall of water levels during
wet/dry seasons
✤ Flood carries fertile silt.
✤ Horticulture, agriculture in Mekong
Delta
✤ Productive rice farming in Thailand,
Vietnam
15. Tonle Sap
✤ Natural flood during rainy season
✤ The river rises enough to reverse its
course.
✤ Water flows backward into the lake.
✤ Lake’s size shrinks from 2,500 sq.km
to 16,000 sq.km.
✤ Enormous wetland area
16. Tonle Sap
✤ Natural flood during rainy season
✤ The river rises enough to reverse its
course.
✤ Water flows backward into the lake.
✤ Lake’s size shrinks from 2,500 sq.km
to 16,000 sq.km.
✤ Enormous wetland area
19. Tonle Sap ✤ Large flood plain
✤ Rich biodiversity
✤ Fertile sediment
✤ Most productive inland fisheries
✤ 230,000 tons of fish yearly
✤ 3 million people
✤ 60% protein for Cambodian
✤ The flow reverses at the end of
rainy season.
✤ 300-500 species support the locals
20. Video Clip
✤ What is water festival like?
✤ How do the local people fish?
✤ In what ways are the Mekong River
and the Tonle Sap important to the
Cambodians?
✤ What kinds of fish are found in the
Mekong region and the Tonle Sap?
✤ What kinds of animals are found?
“Where there is water,
there is fish”
Sunset at the Tonle Sap
21. Mekong River Commission (MRC)
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Where there is water, there is fish.Video Clip
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