China commits to share year-round water data with Mekong River Commission

BANGKOK: China on Thursday signed an agreement with the Mekong River Commission to share year-round data on the flow of its portion of the vital waterway amid concern that Chinese dams may beA push for more data from China's portion of the Mekong River – which Beijing calls the Lancang River – intensified this year after US government criticism that 11 Chinese dams were"hoarding" water and hurting livelihoods downstream, an accusation Beijing denies.

"This agreement is a landmark in the history of China-MRC cooperation," An Pich Hatda, the MRC Secretariat Chief Executive Officer, said in a statement on Thursday. He added that data-sharing is critical to the management of the Mekong, on which 60 million people depend for fishing and farming in downstream countries Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Two years of record drought on the 4,350km waterway have severely harmed livelihoods and raised questions over how mainstream Mekong dams in China and downstream in Laos were affecting the flow of water.China has for 18 years shared water during the June to October monsoon season with the MRC – an advisory body to member countries Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam – to provide early flood warnings.

China's prime minister in August pledged to provide more data, but it previously had been unclear whether it would come through Beijing's own Lancang-Mekong Cooperation body or the 25-year-old MRC.The new agreement will see China provide year-round data from two hydrological stations in Yunnan Province, including rainfall and river level data, the MRC said.

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