Qualla: Pak Mun Dam https://qualla.com/pak-mun-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pak Mun Dam https://qualla.com/pak-mun-dam Pak Mun Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/pak-mun-dam/ Five and a half kilometers before the Mun River gives itself to the Mekong, a concrete dam interrupts the flow. The Pak Mun Dam was completed in 1994 at a cost of US$240 million. It was built by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand with support from the World Bank, and it promised to generate power for a growing nation. What it actually generated — in addition to electricity — was one of the most sustained environmental controversies in modern Thai history.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/d/y/pak-mun-dam-wp/w6dy-pak-mun-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pak Mun Dam: The Promise and the Plan https://qualla.com/pak-mun-dam/ The dam was designed as a run-of-the-river barrage: a low structure that would use the natural flow of the Mun without creating a massive impoundment. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, EGAT, presented it as a development project that would bring power to Ubon Ratc...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/d/y/pak-mun-dam-wp/w6dy-pak-mun-dam-a-river-emptied-of-life.mp3 0:06 3 full Pak Mun Dam: Protest at the Dam and in Bangkok https://qualla.com/pak-mun-dam/ The communities who lost their livelihoods did not accept the situation quietly. For years, villagers staged protests at the dam site itself and traveled to Bangkok to demonstrate outside Government House, calling for the dam to be decommissioned entirely. The pressure was signif...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/d/y/pak-mun-dam-wp/w6dy-pak-mun-dam-protest-at-the-dam-and-in-bangkok.mp3 0:06 4 full Pak Mun Dam: What the Audit Found https://qualla.com/pak-mun-dam/ The Thailand Development Research Institute conducted a formal case study of the dam for the World Commission on Dams, published in 2000. Its conclusion was blunt: EGAT had overstated project benefits, misrepresented the value of power production gains, and claimed irrigation ben...

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