{"id":13394,"date":"2010-07-19T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/damau.org\/archives\/13394"},"modified":"2022-02-23T23:57:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:57:54","slug":"mekongthe-occluding-river-by-ngo-the-vinh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/13394\/mekongthe-occluding-river-by-ngo-the-vinh","title":{"rendered":"Mekong&mdash;The Occluding River by Ngo The Vinh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuniverse.com\/Bookstore\/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000175169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Book Cover\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/asiimages.s3.amazonaws.com\/193413_l.gif\" width=\"151\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuniverse.com\/Bookstore\/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000175169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mekong\u2014The Occluding River<\/strong><\/a><strong>      <br \/>M\u00e9kong, Gi\u00f2ng S\u00f4ng Ngh\u1ebdn M\u1ea1ch<\/strong> \u2013 b\u1ea3n ti\u1ebfng Anh<\/p>\n<p>The Tale of a River   <br \/>By Ngo The Vinh<\/p>\n<p>Published: July, 2010   <br \/>Format: <b>Perfect Bound Softcover(B\/W)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 9781450239363   <br \/>by <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Imprint Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iuniverse.com\/images\/iUniverse.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Part travelogue, part history, and part environmental treatise, \u201cMekong \u2013 The Occluding River\u201d is above all else an urgent warning that factors such as pollution, ecological devastation, and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the very existence of the Mekong River. Author Ngo The Vinh combines his vivid travel notes and collection of photographs with a meticulously researched history of the environmental degradation of the Mekong River. Translated from Vietnamese, the best-selling treatise outlines the myriad threats facing the river today. From oil shipments feeding the industrial cities of southwestern China to gigantichydroelectric dams known as the Mekong Cascades in Yunnan province, China is the worst environmental offender, though the other nations along Mekong\u2019s banks behave no better. From Thailand to Laos to Vietnam, hydroelectric dams that threaten the Mekong and its inhabitants are being built at an alarming rate. To save the Mekong, Ngo The Vinh calls upon all the nations that benefit from its life-giving water to observe the \u201cSpirit of the Mekong\u201d in the implementation of all future development projects. To achieve this end, there must be a concerted and sustained commitment to cooperation and sustainability. At this critical cross-roads, we should remind ourselves of the mantra from Sea World San Diego: \u201cExtinction is forever. Endangered means we still have time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mekong\u2014The Occluding River      M\u00e9kong, Gi\u00f2ng S\u00f4ng Ngh\u1ebdn M\u1ea1ch \u2013 b\u1ea3n ti\u1ebfng Anh<br \/>\nThe Tale of a River   By Ngo The Vinh<br \/>\nPublished: July, 2010   Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B\/W)<br \/>\nISBN: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,39],"tags":[316,313,314],"class_list":["post-13394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-day","category-sach-moi","category-sinh-hoat","tag-cuu-long","tag-mekong","tag-ngo-the-vinh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71532,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394\/revisions\/71532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}