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It's the driest country I've been to in a while, many villages had their water access completely destroyed due to upstream dams. Completely destroyed, or just
by snozolli 4y ago
It's the driest country I've been to in a while, many villages had their water access completely destroyed due to upstream dams.
Completely destroyed, or just no longer enough to support wasteful methods of irrigation? It's been over a decade since I was in SE Asia, but my impression was that they relied heavily on flooding fields for irrigation.
- tjbiddle 4y agoYou bring up a good point. I'm unsure. I live full time in Indonesia, and their irrigation system is much more complex. I saw nothing of the sort in Laos, so perhaps that could be a factor too.