‘Nothing about the Mekong is normal now’: Anger along Southeast Asia’s great river as water levels become unpredictable
Thailand: From a distance, it is hard to make sense of the small patches of green emerging from the cracking mud flats of the Mekong River.
They are not oases, nor sprouts of river grass along dusty channels where water normally flows; they are golf greens.
Recently, an unusual golf tournament was held here, in the border city of Nakhon Phanom, with players taking aim along a makeshift nine-hole course carved into the river bank itself. Water was a shifting hazard and the rough was impenetrable mud.
