Join our discussion between Brian Eyler and journalist Abby Seiff about her new book Troubling the Water, which explores how the rapid destruction of a single lake in Cambodia is upending the lives of millions.
The Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia is one of the world’s most productive inland fisheries, and its abundance provides protein and food security to millions. But today, the lake is dying. Dams hold back billions of gallons of water and disrupt critical fish migration paths. Illegal fishing is now unstoppable. And the region has suffered a string of devastating droughts. Drawing on years of reporting, Abby Seiff traces thechanges on the Tonle Sap.
This event will have interpretation into Khmer via Zoom.
Abby Seiff is a journalist who was based in Southeast Asia for nearly a decade, working as an editor at the Cambodia Daily and the Phnom Penh Post and writing for publications such as Time, the Economist, Al Jazeera, and Pacific Standard, among others. She now works as a freelance reporter and editor.
Brian Eyler, Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program and Energy, Water, and Sustainability Program.
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