Scenarios & Indicators
Cooperative Recovery — Models outcomes if transboundary conservation efforts succeed: reduced pollution, fishing regulation enforcement, dam flow agreements. Water quality improves, fish populations rebound.
Accelerated Decline — Models outcomes under continued hydropower expansion, unregulated fishing, and increasing agricultural runoff. Dissolved oxygen drops, sediment loads spike, species disappear.
Data markers
Green Within safe thresholds
Yellow Approaching limits
Red Exceeds threshold
Thresholds based on MRC Water Quality Guidelines for the Lower Mekong Basin. Baseline data: synthetic calibration from MRC monitoring reports (2020).