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Chea Sophorn, 39, carries a fish basket on the Mekong River bank in Kandal province April 19, 2011. Plans for the first dam across the lower Mekong River are putting Laos on a collision course with its neighbours and environmentalists who fear livelihoods, fish species and farmland could be destroyed, potentially sparking a food crisis. The four countries that share the lower stretches of the 4,900 km (3,044 mile) Mekong - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia - met in the Lao capital Vientiane on Tuesday to debate and possibly decide the future of the 1.285-megawatt (MW) dam, the first of 11 planned in the lower Mekong that are expected to generate 8 percent of Southeast Asia's power by 2025. REUTERS/Samrang Pring (CAMBODIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS)

A Cambodia woman Chea Sophorn, 39, carries a fish basket on the Mekong River bank in Kandal province.

Chea Sophorn, 39, carries a fish basket on the Mekong River bank in Kandal province April 19, 2011. Plans for the first dam across the lower Mekong River are putting Laos on a collision course with its neighbours and environmentalists who fear livelihoods, fish species and farmland could be destroyed, potentially sparking a food crisis. The four countries that share the lower stretches of the 4,900 km (3,044 mile) Mekong - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia - met in the Lao capital Vientiane on Tuesday to debate and possibly decide the future of the 1.285-megawatt (MW) dam, the first of 11 planned in the lower Mekong that are expected to generate 8 percent of Southeast Asia's power by 2025. REUTERS/Samrang Pring (CAMBODIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS)

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