November 19, 2011
The fact that Bangkok is struggling with the worst flooding in at least half a century should be a major wake up call for Vietnamese authorities. Ho Chi Minh City is almost in the same position as the Thai capital. Just like Bangkok, the southern metro is located downstream of a big river, the [...]
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September 12, 2011
A tower being built on the Pearl River in Guangzhou. Environmental activists say that Vietnam’s poisoned Dong Nai River could meet the same fate as a heavily toxic river in China if serious measures aren’t taken soon. According to a leaked cable from the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China, to the State Department in Washington [...]
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April 9, 2011
A protracted drought has aggravated seasonal brackish water intrusion in the Mekong Delta, significantly damaging the region’s rice crop A farmer from Soc Trang Province’s My Xuyen District watering his watermelon field on March 13. The Mekong Delta is suffering from harsh drought and saline water intrusion caused by climate change and upstream hydropower [...]
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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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August 11, 2009
A quiet consultation between the US and the four Mekong River ‘downstream countries’ last month has attracted considerable attention. Here Saigon Businessmen’s Weekend analyzes the unusual event. The Cai Rang floating market on the Mekong River (Can Tho city). For two reasons, the meeting organized on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministerial Meeting in late [...]
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June 22, 2009
A Laotian man collecting shells and stirring the sand in pools on the Mekong before the rainy season With all upstream countries â“ China, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia planning major dams on the Mekong River, Vietnam faces imminent threats to its ecology, food security and livelihoods of its people, an expert has warned. Just Laos, [...]
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March 14, 2009
Salinity is killing the trees of this farmer in Go Dat District, Kien Giang Province. The Mekong Delta is seriously short of fresh water this dry season. The Mekong Delta is at risk of losing its eminence as Vietnamâs rice bowl as river levels drop from upstream irrigation and sea water encroaches farther inland. Drying [...]
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