Mekong river monitoring and forecasting

Our Mission

Promote and coordinate sustainable management and development of water and related resources for the mutual benefits of the lower Mekong countries and the people’s well-being.

Our Topics

The MRC supports a basin-wide planning process based on principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). We provide a wide array of advisory and technical assistance to help the lower Mekong countries promote sustainability in major areas of development..

Our Functions

The MRC Functions are designed to help the lower Mekong countries build consensus around solutions that ensure a sustainable future for the Mekong and its people through basin monitoring, assessment, data and information sharing, and dialogue and cooperation.

Publications

The MRC provides scientific analysis and advice for the lower Mekong countries and various stakeholders and interested parties to sustainably manage and develop the Lower Mekong River Basin.

Explore our data-rich research, analysis, toolkits, guidelines and other resources on water resources management and development topics.

Data & Information

Data and information are key to sustainable water resources management. The MRC has a long history of data collection and analysis about the heath and conditions of the Mekong River, with some data over 100 years. The interactive dashboards assemble and visualise more than 10,000 datasets covering historic and current assessment covering hydrology, sediment, water quality, fisheries, ecological health, climate change, and flood and drought.

MRC-Data and information Services

Discovering MRC’s data and information services and access our scientific datasets …

The Mekong Atlas

Mekong Atlas is an interactive online map visualization platform featuring MRC geos …

Social and Economic database

The Socio-Economic Database (2023) includes the available socio-economic and gender ...

Procedures for the Maintenance of Flows on the Mainstream

The purpose of this webpage is to communicate to the Mekong water users the work of the …

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Posted on 1 Nov 2024

𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮 🇮🇩 Experts from the member countries and the Secretariat gathered…

Posted on Nov 2024

A regional workshop was organized in Luang Prabang, Laos, on 1 November to review and finalize the 2023 Ecological Health Monitoring (EHM) Report on the Lower Mekong River Basin. …. 

Posted on 27 Oct 2024

The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Water Center and MRC Secretariat have been jointly conducting a study on the changing hydrological conditions… 

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Mr. Yasunobu Matoba

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Dr. Olivier Cogels

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Mr. Kristensen Joern

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Mr. Jeremy Douglas BIRD

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Mr. Hans Joakim GUTTMAN

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Mr. Pham Tuan Phan

First Riparian Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat

Dr. An Pich Hatda

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat