{"id":1218,"date":"2015-10-21T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T10:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2015-10-21T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T10:44:38","slug":"a-rivers-tail-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"A River\u2019s Tail: Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Luc Forsyth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After months of planning and preparation, when production of A River\u2019s Tail started in Vietnam no one on the crew knew quite what to expect. We each had our own preconceptions of what we\u2019d find in the Mekong delta, and after extensively researching the region we knew that there were a wide range of environmental issues affecting the Mekong. Yet until we\u2019d physically gotten on location they were nothing more than speculations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gareth Bright<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We decided to do A River\u2019s Tail in the opposite direction of what logic might dictate, by starting where the Mekong ends and tracing it back to it\u2019s source nearly 5000km away in the Tibetan plateau. The reasoning behind this decision was that we wanted to have a clear picture of the myriad of ways the river facilitated ecology, economics, and culture before we saw its origins. Like being able to travel back in time to visit one of the world\u2019s great thinkers when they were a baby, we hoped that grasping just how important the Mekong is in the life of the 60-odd million people who live downriver would allow us to better appreciate the magnitude of its importance. (Text by Luc Forsyth)<\/span><\/p>\n