Mekong delta where is it

A farmer trying to save crops impacted by early floods in Hong Ngu district, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap. (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Farmers in Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are struggling to fight floodwaters caused by heavy rains, rising tides and water released in the wake of a dam breach in Laos. Mekong countries have also discharged water from their reservoirs after the dam breach in Laos, causing water levels to rise in the delta, Tran Ba Hoang, head of the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research , told vietnamplus.vn. The water level was expected to peak at 3.4-3.6m, he said. According to Nguoi Lao Dong (The Labourer) newspaper, thousands of hectares of rice and cash crops in An Giang province had been submerged in An Phu, Tinh Bien, Chau Doc and Tan Chau, causing huge losses to farmers. Tran Anh Thu, Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said flooding caused by the rising level of Mekong River would occur earlier than usual this year. The provincial agriculture sector has instructed localities to closely monitor the weather and tides in order to inform people of when they would need to harvest crops not protected by dyke systems. Local authorities had been helping farmers to upgrade dykes, drain water from rice fields and harvest crops quickly to minimize losses, Thu said. Vo Hung Kiet, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Thanh Hung commune in Long An province, said the flood water was rising by 5-7cm each day but the dyke system was incomplete, so farmers had no time to harvest tens of hectares of rice. At a recent meeting on natural disasters in the Mekong River Delta, Nguyen Truong Son, deputy head of office of the Central Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention, said localities had been instructed to closely monitor the situation and provide updated information to authorized agencies and local residents. He also asked provinces in the Mekong …

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A former lottery ticket seller who has received many prestigious awards over the years has been living in special circumstances. Thia teaches swimming Tran Thi Kim Thia, or Sau Thia, 63, was born into a poor family and grew up in Go Cong Dong district in Tien Giang province. As her parents died young, she came to Hung Thanh commune in Thap Muoi district in Dong Thap province at the age of 34, and has been living there since. Unmarried, with no children, Sau Thia lives alone. When she was young, she earned her living by selling lottery tickets and peeling cashews. If she could sell 200 tickets a day, she would have VND200,000. For every kilogram of peeled cashew, she got VND400 more. In the 1980-1990s, she was invited to take the work of the women’s union. Later, she worked at the Red Cross as a collaborator in the population planning program. In 2002, when the Hung Thanh commune localities launched a project on swimming universalization for children, she became a trainer. The new task made her feel anxious. In the first year, she set up two groups, with seven children in each group. The number increased in subsequent years to 50-60. Some children who had failed to learn in other classes were able to swim well after practicing with Thia. Thia became beloved by parents, who entrusted their children to her. In 2020, she suddenly fell seriously ill. As she was brought to the hospital quickly, she escaped death. So she stopped selling tickets. She now spends most of her time teaching swimming to children. Every day, she has 2-3 training shifts with children. Over the last 19 years of giving free swimming lessons, nearly 4,000 children in Dong Thap Muoi learned to swim. “In the past, I both sold lottery tickets and gave swimming lessons. Some people said I was so foolish because I spent time teaching swimming which could not bring money. But when I watched TV, I found that many children had drowned and I felt sorry for them,” she said. “In …

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“Second Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal” in the pipeline The Saigon Times A scene of Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal - PHOTOS: THANH HOA The project to improve the water environment of the Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal system is one of the most ambitious environmental endeavors in HCMC since 1975. Once the most polluted canal system in this city, Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe, which used to be lined with slums on its bank and whose unmistakably pungent smell was unbearable, has undergone a sweeping change to become a symbol of the efforts to improve environmental pollution in HCMC. Now that the preparations for the project to clean up and renovate the environment of the Tham Luong Canal – Ben Cat – Nuoc Len Canal system is being completed, it is expected to become another Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal system, reported Tuoi Tre newspaper. Stretching on a total length of 33 kilometers, the Tham Luong Canal – Ben Cat – Nuoc Len Canal system is the longest of its kind in HCMC. The system runs across seven districts, including Binh Chanh District, District 12, Go Vap District, Tan Binh District, Tan Phu District, Binh Tan District and Binh Thanh District. In fact, this project is not totally new as the city government once tried to implement it to improve the heavily polluted environment along this canal system. In 2016, the second phase of this project was approved with construction scheduled to begin in 2017. However, in that year, the World Bank, the project’s then money lender, withdrew, and it has been stalled since. A project to benefit many But it has revived. The HCMC People’s Council has recently given the green light to the investment in cleaning up the Tham Luong Canal – Ben Cat – Nuoc Len Canal system. Of the estimated fund for this environmental plan worth VND8.2 trillion, some VND4 trillion will be sourced by the central Government’s budget and the rest from the municipal budget. Scheduled to be implemented during 2021-2025, according to Tuoi Tre, the …

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