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Page 1: (M Dams in the Mekong Basin, Laos · of the Mekong River Basin in Laos.Only hydropower dams of 15 megawatts installed capacity and above are indicated; only irrigation reservoirs

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Dams in the Mekong Basin, Laos

C H I N AC H I N A

V I E T N A MV I E T N A M

T H A I L A N DT H A I L A N D

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L A O SL A O S

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1:4,000,000

Commissioned, Under Construction and Planned Damsin September 2017

Datum : World Geodetic System 1984Coordinate System : Universal Tranverse Mercator Zone 48 North

VIANG CHAN(VIENTIANE)

LegendDams

Purpose & Status! Hydropower (planned)

! Hydropower (under construction)

! Hydropower (commissioned)

! Hydropower (cancelled)

" Irrigation (commissioned)

Multi-purpose (planned)

Multi-purpose (under construction)

Multi-purpose (commissioned)

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Mekong River basin boundary

Mekong River System

Hierarchy

Mainstream

Tributaries

Lakes & reservoirs

Cites

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National boundary

CartographicDesign by :

www.geo-sys.net

Map Description:The map shows every known commissioned, under construction, and planned dam in those parts of the Mekong River Basin in Laos.Only hydropower dams of 15 megawatts installed capacity and above are indicated; only irrigation reservoirs of 0.5 km2 and above are indicated. Dams without labels are ones for which names have yet to be identified.

Data Sources:The locations for the dams displayed on this map are derived from the WLE Greater Mekong DamsDatabase, available here: https://wle-mekong.cgiar.org/maps/.Background relief data is courtesy of Natural Earth and SRTM data from the JPL of NASARiver basin boundary and river vector data is courtesy of the IWMI.All other administrative and physiographic data courtesy of NOAA's National Geophysical DataCenter's Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database

Acknowledgements:WLE Greater Mekong gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Australian Departmentof Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), which contributed towards the development of this map.WLE Greater Mekong gratefully acknowledges the inputs of the Asia International Rivers Centre atYunnan University, P.R China; the Department of Irrigation, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation,Myanmar; and the Institute of Water Resources Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, Vietnam to the datasets on which this map is based.This map has been rendered by GeoSys (Lao) Co., Ltd, Lao-Thai Road, Ban Watnak, SisattanakDistrict, Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR. www.geo-sys.net

Disclaimer:While very much effort has been made to confirm the accuracy of these data, WLE Greater Mekong,DFAT, or any other partner associated with the WLE Greater Mekong Program cannot be heldresponsible for any inaccuracies or omissions in this map. Observations and comments may be sentto [email protected]. The designation and names of geographical entities on this map do notimply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of DFAT, WLE Greater Mekong, or anyassociated partners on the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities orconcerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries or of the nomenclature deployed in itsidentification.

Correct Citation:WLE Greater Mekong, 2018. Dams in the Mekong River Basin, Laos : Commissioned, Under Construction and Planned Dams in September 2017. Vientiane, CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems - Greater Mekong.

Creative Commons LicenseThis publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial–NoDerivs 3.0Unported License. This publication may be freely quoted and reproduced provided the sourceis acknowledged. If reproduced in whole or in part, no part of themap’s information or nomenclature may changed or alteredwithout the written permission of the copyright holders. Thispublication may not be used in whole or in part for resale orother commercial purposes.