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  • A large pile of fish caught by a group of Lao men on the Nam Ou River in Phou Den Din National Protected Area, Laos. The area is frequented by hunters and fishermen who camp and poach wild game within park boundaries despite (or perhaps without knowledge) that this is technically illegal.
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  • Children play and slide down split bamboo mats on the beach in Muang Hat Hin, Laos.
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  • A young man shows off his moves at a party in Ban Huay Phouk, Laos as other partygoers, and young girls in the window, watch. The celebration was hoped to bring good luck to the woman of the house, who was suffering from cancer and whom modern western medicine had failed to treat.
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  • A Chinese worker with a SinoHydro helmet flashes the peace (V) sign for a photo at the construction site for Dam #5 on the Nam Ou River, Laos.
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  • Men adjust the position of the stilts for a new house being built in Ban Pak Luang, Laos. The raised stilts help protect from mud and floods common during the rainy season. The village would only suffer minor inundation by proposed Dam #3 (whose construction has not yet commenced).
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  • Robert Hahn contemplates the karst cliffs rising above him on the Nam Ou River near Muang Ngoi, Laos.
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  • Women prepare white thread bracelets (representing good luck) at a celebration held at the home of a woman suffering from cancer in Ban Huay Phouk, Laos. According to her son, modern western medicine had failed to cure her so it was time to try a more traditional treatment.
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  • A mother plays music from her cellphone while her son and two of his friends watch television at home in Ban Sop Kha, Laos. The electronics are powered by batteries (right) charged by micro hydro turbines jury-rigged into the Nam Ou River.
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  • Robert Hahn carries his packraft down the original river channel - now a construction site for Dam #5 - on the Nam Ou River, Laos.
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  • Robert Hahn (center) chats with Vietnamese workers, while drinking a Vietnamese beer, on a mechanical gold dredge floating on the Nam Ou River, Laos. Six men live on the vessel for months, rotating throughout the day and working in pairs to keep the machine in constant operation.
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  • A man adjusts the (boat) propeller on a micro hydro turbine in the flow of the Nam Ou River at Ban Sop Kha, Laos. The turbines are used by villages all along the river to generate electricity, at least during the dry season when the water level is low enough to mount them to the river bed.
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  • Women and children stay warm by a fire and process reeds used to manufacture brooms in Ban Had Dan, Laos. The clusters, wrapped with bamboo and made into brooms, are sold to neighboring Vietnam and fetch 3,000 kip ($0.37) - a cottage industry in this village. The village would only be partially inundated by proposed Dam #3 (whose construction has not yet commenced).
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  • A man is lost in thought at his home while being asked questions about Nam Ou River Dam #6 which will inundate his village Ban Kor Man Mai (?), Laos. He expressed sadness over the flooding of the riverside funeral sites, but - having had two children die due to lack of medical care - appreciated the value of the road and other services promised at his future, government provided home.
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  • A floating Vietnamese mechanical gold dredge leaves a wake of tailing piles in the Nam Ou River, Laos.
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  • Sunset over traditional thatched roof huts, trees, and bamboo in Ban Sop Khip, Laos, a village that will be completely inundated by Nam Ou River Dam #5.
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  • A boy poses proudly with his diving mask, spear gun, and homemade string instrument in Ban Huay Phouk, Laos.
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  • Women collect rock river weed (Cladophora sp.) on the shore of the Nam Ou River in Ban Phu Muang, Laos. The green algae is commonly eaten as a delicacy, either boiled or dried in sheets.
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