"The Nine Dragons Drained Dry, the East Sea in Turmoil" is described as a novel. However, while reading it, one comes to the realization that it actually deals with the issues of a deteriorating environment that endangers the survival of a beloved river and its nefarious impacts on a great number of people, on generations to come, and on many nations - at the least seven - in Southeast Asia. Ngo The Vinh writes about the building of dams wreaking...