Water Level Data from the Prek System of the Cambodian Mekong Delta (2020-2024)

Agricultural cycles are keyed to the flood arrival, peak, and recession, and fish populations depend on inundated floodplains for their regeneration. However, as factors like climate change and hydropower infrastructure development are altering the Mekong’s hydrology, the inundation dynamics of its deltaic floodplains are shifting as well.

Several studies have assessed the general changes of river discharge and flood extent on a basin- or delta-wide scale. Yet the sustainable development of this region is relying on dynamics at more local and specific scales, which have not been addressed so far. This dataset includes water level data from nine differential pressure loggers installed in the Kandal region in Cambodia.