Groundwater is a vital ecosystem of the global water cycle, hosting unique biodiversity and
providing essential services to societies. Despite being the largest unfrozen freshwater …

Hydropower is a rapidly developing and globally important source of renewable electricity.
Globally, over 60% of rivers longer than 500 km are already fragmented and thousands of …

Recent drought events in the Mekong River Basin (MRB) have resulted in devastating
environmental and economic losses, and climate change and human-induced alterations …

River barriers reduce river connectivity and lead to fragmentation of fish habitats, which can
result in decline or even extinction of aquatic biota, including fish populations. In the Mekong …

Abstract The Mekong River basin (MRB) is a transboundary basin that supports livelihoods
of over 70 million inhabitants and diverse terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems. This critical lifeline …

Demands on freshwater for human use are increasing globally, but water resource
development (WRD) has substantial downstream impacts on fisheries and ecosystems. Our …

The fragmentation of free-flowing rivers (FFRs) through major infrastructure development
remains a pivotal threat to global freshwater biodiversity. More than 3400 large hydropower …

Since the early 1990s, the Mekong basin has been transformed from a largely free-flowing
basin to one that is increasingly impounded by large hydropower dams, impacting river …

Managing transboundary river basins requires balancing tradeoffs of sustainable water use
and coping with climate uncertainty. We demonstrate an integrated approach to exploring …

The flow regime of the largest lake in Southeast Asia, Tonle Sap Lake, is driven by the
reverse flow phenomenon caused by its link with the Mekong River. This reverse flow makes …