Fig. 5

(a) Locations of dams in the Mekong River basin. The background image shows elevation (source: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)). Selected large dams—commissioned, under construction, or planned—are labeled. Dam status is color-coded whereas the installed capacity (megawatts) is marked by circle size; NA denotes “data not available”. (b) Selected dams, categorized based on dam height and storage capacity; the background image shows land use and land cover (LULC) classes for the year 2020 obtained from ESA-CCI.