Climate change to blame for Mekong droughts: Cambodian PM

Bernama: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday that blames on China over droughts of the Mekong River is baseless and the global climate change is to blame instead. Hun Sen, who attended last week's Mekong Summit in Hua Hin of Thailand along with other leaders and scientists, said:"They (some countries) are blaming China while China itself is being victimized by droughts.

".. China's Lancang River has no water, either," Xinhua news agency cited Hun Sen as saying here. "The upper part of China's Yunnan province is also facing severe droughts, worse than Cambodia," he said. "The level of water in the Mekong River totally depends on rain and the level of water fluctuates with the climate change," said Hun Sen.

"I am not defending China, but I am saying this only to provide justice for China," Hun Sen said, adding that he had a separate talk with China and Laos on the sidelines of the Mekong Summit in Thailand. Hun Sen also said that the climate change hit countries across the world. "In Cambodia, wells are dried up," he said. "We -- Cambodia, China, Laos and Vietnam -- are facing droughts as well."…

Swimming in the Mekong in Cambodia. Shot by Clear Path International, Wikimedia Commons via Flickr, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license