About 5,600 households in Kiên Giang Province’s An Biên District lack access to clean water and have to harvest rainwater or buy clean water.
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Samsung faces youth climate protests over Vietnam coal plant
Protestors gathered outside Samsung’s flagship UK store Friday, calling on the firm to halt plans to build a new coal-fired power plant in Vietnam.
Hanoi’s river water remains polluted
The quality of surface water in many lakes and rivers in the north has improved, but 15 monitoring areas of 185 that have been monitored remain heavily polluted, mainly on the Cau and Nhue-Day rivers.
Flood season coming late, drought may return to Mekong Delta
If there is insufficient rain in the months to come, drought and saltwater intrusion may plague the region again during the next dry season.
Vietnam mulls new 130 km Mekong Delta expressway
The Can Tho-Ca Mau Expressway is among several planned or being constructed in the Mekong Delta region.
Mekong Delta to expand fruit, seafood production in response to climate change
Plans for an additional 450,000ha under fruit and seafood production by 2030 as part of efforts to shift the region’s farming model toward more sustainable agriculture practices.
Vietnam’s main coconut growing area stressed by salinity
Historic levels of saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta have caused coconuts in Ben Tre Province to shrink by half in size and farmers’ incomes by even more.
Fielding some tough questions from the Mekong Delta’s field crab
There has been no oversight on the use of farm chemical, and it is not just the field crab, but many other species have disappeared in the delta.