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The government will spend 1 billion yuan (about $161.5 million) in 2013 to protect Sanjiangyuan, a region that serves as the source of China's three biggest rivers. The money will be spent on afforestation, wetland protection and the recovery of...

It is estimated that some 60 million people depend on the 4,900-km-long Mekong River and its tributaries for their lives and livelihoods food, water and transportation. It is the world's largest inland fishery; an estimated 1,000 species of fish live...

Justin Mott for The New York Times Fishermen from the Laotian village of Ban Huoay with their nets on the Mekong...The Vietnamese refer to it as Song Cuu Long, or the Nine Dragons River...Whatever its name, the Mekong River is...