The Yali Falls Dam is the second largest

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in Vietnam, located in Gia Lai and

Kon Tum Kon Tum is the capital city of Kon Tum Province in Vietnam. It is located inland in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia. History After the People's Army of Vietnam invaded South Vietnam on March 30, 1 ...

provinces on the ''Krong Poko'', a tributary of the '' Sesan River'', in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, about upstream of the Cambodian border. The -high dam was begun in 1993 and sealed in 1996, with the reservoir filled by 1998. It aims to generate 720 MW of hydropower. Like many large dam projects, it has been highly criticised, for causing flooding, damaging fisheries and for the lack of consultation with Cambodian authorities. Amongst those opposing the dam are the Sesan-Srepok-Sesong Protection Network (3SPN), organising 59 villages in northeast

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...

to promote the environment in the three river basins and supported by Oxfam.

References

* Phoel, Cynthia M., "Bargaining Power", in ''Oxfam Exchange'', Fall 2004, 8–9. * http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/case_studies/sesan/yalifallsdam/yalifallsdam.htm (accessed 13 December 2008)
Heavy water release from Vietnam's Yali Falls dam floods communities in northeastern Cambodia
press release,

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, 29 July 2008. (Accessed 26 June 2011.) * TERRA, (2000) "Proposed Dams on the Se San River", Oxfam Community Aid Abroad. April, 2000

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