Qualla: Lower Se San 2 Dam https://qualla.com/lower-se-san-2-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Lower Se San 2 Dam https://qualla.com/lower-se-san-2-dam Lower Se San 2 Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/lower-se-san-2-dam/ Forty kilos of fish in a night. That is what a good night on the Sesan could yield before the water rose - enough to feed a household, sell some in Stung Treng, and carry a family through the dry months. Villagers working the same reach today describe hauling ten kilos on a decent night, and often less than that. Between those two numbers stands a wall 75 meters high and 7,729 meters long, twenty-five kilometers east of the provincial capital, on one of the Mekong's largest tributaries. The Lower Sesan 2 opened on 18 December 2018, and it is the largest hydropower dam Cambodia has ever built.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/t/lower-se-san-2-dam-wp/w67t-lower-se-san-2-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lower Se San 2 Dam: Twenty Years of Second Thoughts https://qualla.com/lower-se-san-2-dam/ The project was first sketched in a 1999 study funded by the Asian Development Bank, which concluded it was an unattractive investment - marginal on financial viability, heavy on environmental impact. It did not die. In 2007 Cambodia's Ministry of Mines and Energy signed a memora...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/t/lower-se-san-2-dam-wp/w67t-lower-se-san-2-dam-the-families-who-stayed.mp3 0:06 4 full Lower Se San 2 Dam: The Arithmetic of a Flood Pulse https://qualla.com/lower-se-san-2-dam/ The losses do not stop at the shoreline. At least 38,675 people across more than 86 villages were projected to lose access to the fishery, and researchers estimated that at least 78,000 people living above the dam site would be cut off from migratory fish entirely, since the stru...

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