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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4529-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4529-2014
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Historical impact of water infrastructure on water levels of the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap system

T. A. Cochrane, M. E. Arias, and T. Piman

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Natural patterns of water levels in the Mekong are changing as a result of hydropower and irrigation development. Since 1991, significant changes in water level fluctuations and rising and falling rates have occurred along the lower Mekong. The changes were linked to temporal and spatial trends in water infrastructure development and can lead to impacts on ecosystem productivity. Climatic change is also important, but it has not been the main cause of the key water level alternations.