Garbage is discharged directly into HCM City’s Tàu Hủ–Bến Nghé–Đôi–Tẻ canal basin. The third phase of the Water Environment Improvement Project in the basin, starting in 2022, is part of the city’s efforts to stem urban flooding. – VNS Photo Diệp Phan HCM City – To mitigate the impact of flooding caused by heavy rains and high river tides, HCM City has invested heavily in flood-prevention works, including drainage system improvement, dredging of canals and wastewater treatment systems. Under a city plan, 80 per cent of the urban population is expected to have access to water drainage services by 2025, and the city will have over 80 per cent of its urban sewage water treated. The city aims to have no flooding in the city centre of 106,41sq.km and solve flooding problems in remaining areas over the next five years. The flood-prone Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh Street in Bình Thạnh District, for example, is being upgraded to prevent flooding, and pumps have been installed. The work is expected to be completed in April. The city has been urged to improve the drainage capacity of southern city districts and build drainage systems in areas with none, especially in the east. The municipal Department of Construction is working with the Department of Planning and Architecture, the Management Board Construction Investment Projects and related authorities to draw up an adjusted drainage master plan for the HCM City Zone to 2030 with a vision to 2050. The department is also in charge of inspections and will ensure that investors install water drainage systems at their projects. The city needs up to VNĐ107.2 trillion (US$4.6 billion) for flood-prevention projects by 2025, including 115 projects to improve water drainage systems and seven regulating lakes, officials have said. Drainage projects will use official development assistance (ODA) and private capital from public-private partnerships. Projects to handle tidal floods and lessen climate change …
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Central Vietnam: Successive floods kill 18 people, next storm due soon
The Hanoitimes - Flooding has isolated communities and submerged or damaged up to 100,000 houses, leaving up to 31,000 people displaced. Successive floods in Vietnam's central provinces have killed at least 18 people and left 14 others missing as of October 12 afternoon while the country is bracing for another tropical storm, according to the National Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue. The flooding comes as tropical storm Linfa hit central Vietnam on October 11 just hours after being upgraded and then lost strength to become a tropical depression again. Linfa was forecast to bring heavy rainfalls and strong winds to central and south-central Vietnam until October 13 as it moves inland. Warnings of flash floods, landslides and local flooding have been issued for the provinces from Quang Binh to Binh Dinh and the Central Highlands region. The provinces exposed to the highest risk are Thua Thien Hue, Danang and Quang Nam. This is the first time the wooden pontoon walkway along the province’s Huong river (a famous tourist attraction) has been submerged. Photo: HD Quang Tri province suffered the heaviest death toll with three people having perished and seven reported missing. Lots of areas in Thua Thien-Hue province have been inundated. This is the first time the wooden pontoon walkway along the province’s Huong river (a famous tourist attraction) has been submerged and pedestrian roads around the river are under water. Flooding has isolated communities and submerged or damaged up to 100,000 houses, leaving up to 31,000 people displaced. In the next few days, the central region would brace itself for another storm which will bring more rains and result in more flooding, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) forecast. It is highly likely that a new low-pressure area will be formed to the east of the Philippines on October 13-14 and would grow into a storm in the …
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Flood-affected poor households get ‘safe houses’
Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Construction of Quảng Nam Province hand over the first batch of resilient houses to poor households in Quảng Nam in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Photo courtesy UNDP CENTRAL REGION — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Construction of Quảng Nam Province have handed over the first batch of resilient houses to poor households in celebration of Tết (Lunar New Year). This is one of the activities of the UNDP project ‘Response to disasters in Việt Nam’ to repair 3,323 houses and build 20 new houses (10 in Quảng Nam Province). Quảng Nam is one of the coastal provinces which suffers from strong storms every year. According to the province's statistics, after storm No 9 ( Molave ) in 2020, the total number of houses damaged was more than 27,000 and more than 26,000 houses were partially damaged, affecting the lives of thousands of people. Nguyễn Văn Mạnh, head of the Infrastructure Management unit under the provincial Department of Construction said: “We are very pleased to cooperate with UNDP to build more safe houses which can withstand storms and floods for the poor to celebrate Tết , especially those seriously affected by natural disasters in 2020. We hope to continue to receive UNDP support in the future to be able to build more houses.” Caitlin Wiesen, Resident Representative of the UNDP, sent Tết greetings to the households as she wrote: “We hope that in 2021, the Year of the Buffalo, these safe houses will be of great support for the families to overcome difficult situations. We wish you good health and luck, and especially reduced burdens caused by the storms and floods.” "Building on the success of the project ‘Improving the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change related impacts in Việt Nam’ supported by the Green Climate Fund, the Government of Việt Nam and UNDP, 3,500 resilient …
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