P�yry carried out a comparison between the original design of the dam and the recommendations of the Mekong River Commission, a body that brings together all riparian states of the lower Mekong and that has carried out a strategic environmental assessment for the impact of the planned cascade of dams on the Mekong.
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The river-bordering states, Krehbiel stressed in his 1918 article, " were eager to get control of the river into their own hands ", but the non-riparian states were " loath to lose control . " As a result, the CED was constantly strengthened, and the IDC never came into power, but " was presently abandoned ."
