A river runs through it (too)

I have used this title for a post before, but who can resist the allure of a great (plagiarized) one? Inspiration: this.

National Public Radio carried this interesting story today about the Mekong River on All Things Considered. Michael Sullivan travels the river and talks of the people living along it; he begins in the Tibetan plateau, where today's piece is from. Upcoming are his dispatches from places downstream - Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Listen to it here. I suppose the following related stories will be available over the next few weeks.