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Burma Seeks to Dam Another River

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Jul 05, 2012
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Snaking through the verdant limestone landscape, the Salween River finally reaches the Andaman Sea by Burma’s former teak port capital of Moulmein after running a course of 2,800 kilometers during which it supports an estimated 10 million people.

But times are changing for what was once the longest free-flowing river in Asia, as Chinese, Thai and Burmese…

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