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ArticleScience advances2024

Can restoring water and sediment fluxes across a mega-dam cascade alleviate a sinking river delta?

Samuel De Xun Chua, Yuheng Yang, G Mathias Kondolf, Chantha Oeurng, Ty Sok, Shurong Zhang, Lu Xixi

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Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

Samuel De Xun ChuaDepartment of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-4375-7401
Yuheng YangDepartment of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-1999-7547
G Mathias KondolfDepartment of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5639-9995
Chantha OeurngFaculty of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh 86, Cambodia.ORCID 0000-0001-9478-1319
Ty SokFaculty of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh 86, Cambodia.
Shurong ZhangFaculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7734-1039
Lu XixiDepartment of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-2528-4631
Institute of Technology of Cambodia · KHNational University of Singapore · SGBeijing Normal University · CNUniversity of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Helsinki · FI

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydropower, although an attractive renewable energy source, can alter the flux of water, sediments, and biota, producing detrimental impacts in downstream regions. The Mekong River illustrates the impacts of large dams and the limitations of conventional dam regulating strategies. Even under the most optimistic sluicing scenario, sediment load at the Mekong Delta could only recover to 62.3 ± 8.2 million tonnes (1 million tonnes = 10

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