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Mekong
“My mother sometimes tells me that never in my whole life will I see rivers as beautiful as these, as big, as wild, the Mekong and its arms that go down to the oceans, these territories of water that are going to disappear into the cavities of the oceans.”
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Born near Saigon in 1914, Marguerite Duras took her first steps in this country colonized by France. Having to join her high school in Saigon, the young woman takes the ferry and crosses this gigantic river that is the Mekong. Its power fascinates her. She even comes to fear it, getting off her bus to go to the ferry and contemplate the landscape while making sure she is safe.
Love and the Mekong River, two intranquillas
It is during one of these crossings that the young woman meets her “lover”. She intimidates this elegant and rich Chinese whose family lives in a sumptuous residence, overlooking the same river, in Sa Dec. The relationship between the 28-year-old man and the 15-year-old girl soon caused a lot of protests, especially in the lover’s family. Forced to marry a Vietnamese woman in order to respect the rules of propriety, it is from this house that he sees his bride leave in a boat taking her back to France in 1933…
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Mekong River
The Mekong River is the tenth largest river in the world and the fourth largest in Asia after the Yangtze River, the Ganges-Brahmaputra River and the Yenisei River. It is traditionally called the “River of Nine Dragons” in Vietnam.
More than 70 million people depend on the Mekong. Used for irrigation, fishing, fish farming, hydroelectric production, transportation of goods and water supply for industries and individuals, the river even has an international commission, the Mekong Committee, established in 1995 to manage crises related to it between the different countries using its waters.
In addition to the economic aspects, the Committee ensures the good practices of sustainable development of the river.
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