Modeling Spatial Database and Application of Water Resources Dispute Monitoring in Transboundary River.

Abstract

In recent years, the lack of freshwater resources and the national economic development’s demand for energy has made many countries pay attention to the development and utilization of water resources in cross-border rivers. The transboundary, sharing and mobility of cross-border rivers inevitably lead to national interests. Therefore, this study aims (1) to construct a spatial database model of water resources disputes in river basins; the data is based on water resources disputes in Mekong River basin. (2) This research applies the designed model to monitor the conflicts on water resources on the Don Sahong Dam. The data were collected through the Text Retrieval (TR) system and web crawler technology. The obtained data were analyzed by text analysis and the data were illustrated in a form of vector maps, where disputes were from, by using Arc GIS software. Once the spatial database model for water disputes is constructed, the designed mode was applied to monitor the Don Sahong Dam disputes.The findings reveal the distribution of water organizations around the world and the spatial statistics such as the types of organizations, the frequency of government organizations, the frequency of international organizations, and the frequency of NGOs participating in the Don Sahong Dam dispute. The implications and recommendations are also included.