04011nas|a2200457 a 4500 20260817162451.0 070212s2006 th uu|m rtt 0| a1eng d .b12006609 AIT Thesis no.WM-05-13 Sivarajah, Mylevaganam Analysis of the flow regime of the Mekong River and its environmental consequences Pathum Thani, Thailand : Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 163 p. : ill. Thesis ; no. WM-05-13 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 Humans have long been fascinated by the dynamism of free-flowing water. Yet we have exercised to tame rivers for transportation, water supply, flood control, agriculture, and power generation. It is now recognized that harnessing of streams and rivers comes at invaluable cost. Ecological responses to altered flow regimes in a specific stream or river depend on how the components of flow have changed relative to the natural flow regime. This paper addresses the flow regime of the Mekong river and its environmental consequences. The Mekong River is the largest river of the South East Asia, with the total length of 4,800km and the basin area of 795,000km2. People may suffer from the Mekong's anomalistic floods, yet the rich soil it distributes/deposits and the fish it nurtures sustain them. However, China's plan to build colossal dams on the upper reaches of the Mekong in Yunnan Province, which is known as Lancang in China, will change the river's natural flow regime. This work is an attempt to reckon the hydrologic alteration on natural flow regime of lower Mekong river over the post-dam period which marks the completion of Manwan and Dachaoshan dams in upper Mekong using Range of Variability Approach while assuming that the pre-dam period was sound ecologically. The required environmental flow for healthy ecosystem and the applicability of standard setting methods for lower Mekong river are demonstrated. To reflect the completion of Xiaowan dam in 2010, few wellgrounded scenarios are considered in Mike 11 modeling environment to predict the future flow regime. Subsequently, its effect on environmental flow requirement is reported. Further, the impact of altered flow regime on fish production and the role of water resources developments of lower Mekong riparian countries in altering the natural flow regime are reported Mekong River Environmental aspects Mekong River Social aspects Gupta, Ashim Das, Chairperson Babel, Mukand Singh, Chairperson Clemente, Roberto S., Examination Committee Weesakul, Sutat, Examination committee Herath, Srikantha, Examination committee Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship, Scholarship Donor AITAA Index Partial Scholarship, Scholarship Donor Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. WM-05-13 Full-Text http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B10698 .b12006609 mnait u 240401 0 070212 m a u 0 mnait mnait mnarc 20 40 Barcode : 30050120550735 CREATED : 2005-09-15 RECORD # : i12516983 LPATRON : 1024135 LCHKIN : 2013-04-06 # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 11 TOT RENEW : 3 Barcode : 30050120550701 CREATED : 2005-09-15 RECORD # : i12516995 LPATRON : 1020594 LCHKIN : 2008-09-29 # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 5 TOT RENEW : 0 Barcode : 30050120233555 CREATED : 2016-01-04 RECORD # : i12920782 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 5123 5123 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-17 50.00 0 AIT Thesis no.WM-05-13 30050120550735 2026-08-17 16:24:51 1 2026-08-17 20 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-17 50.00 0 AIT Thesis no.WM-05-13 30050120550701 2026-08-17 16:24:51 2 2026-08-17 20 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnarc 2026-08-17 0 AIT Thesis no.WM-05-13 30050120233555 2026-08-17 16:24:52 2026-08-17 40