Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand and Da Nang, Viet Nam are among the cities to participate in the ‘Closing the Loop’ project that supports governments to address plastic waste pollution and leakages into the marine environment.
Category: Viet Nam
Mekong Delta residents flee as nature turns hostile
Their ancestors had come to settle the Mekong Delta, turning it into the nation’s agriculture and aquaculture hub, but now they are fleeing.
How to mitigate the health disaster of air pollution – can the successful Vietnamese Covid response teach us some lessons?
Air pollution is “a silent killer” in Vietnam where more than 60 000 deaths per year, more than traffic accidents with 11,000 deaths.
Mekong Delta’s reservoir of abundance runs dry
Designed to supply water to more than 200,000 people living in 24 communes and towns for household use, and for industrial and irrigation purposes. No empty, it has thrown daily life into disarray.
Mekong Mekong Delta Aquaculture Farming Sustainable with Solar Energy
The project would effectively make use of the farming land, reduce freshwater consumption, wastewater and carbon emissions while keeping an optimal water temperature for shrimp growth.
Vietnam jails man for Facebook posts ‘defaming’ the regime
Phan Cong Hai, 24, used it to post support for activists jailed in protests against the government’s handling of a toxic dump in 2016, as well as other controversial issues.
Bank starts fundraising programme for drought, saline intrusion victims
The bank will donate 5,000 VND for each transaction made via the BIDV SmartBanking app to provide those for people in Long An, Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Kien Giang and Ca Mau.
Suffering drought and salinity, Mekong Delta province desperate for freshwater lake
So far this year, drought and salt intrusion has damaged 43,000 hectares of rice fields and caused 80,000 families to lack water.
The great salt drought desiccating Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
The issue is water. Salty seawater has intruded into the freshwater Mekong Delta at unprecedented levels this year, to the point at which peoples’ crops and produce simply cannot survive.