Study shows Vietnam’s ethnic communities’ grapple with hydropower plant impacts

Mongabay
Jun 5, 2025, 4:17 am118 pts
In June 2019, an early morning flash flood swept through the Bien La commune in northwestern Vietnam, ravaging crops and farmlands belonging to 60 families. The cause: the Su Pan 1 small hydropower dam, about 12 km (7 miles) upstream of the commune, where officials opened the water discharge gates without prior…

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