This report contains information about progress made in 1988 in the water resources development and related projects in the lower Mekong basin that are included in the Work Programme of the Interim Mekong Committee.

Progress has been made in the various sectors of the Committee?s Work Programme Of special importance was the completion, in 1987, of the updating of the Indicative Basin Plan This was an intensive exercise to clarify the Committee?s priorities and define a realistic framework for the development of the water resources of the lower Mekong basin.