The rainy season has just begun but Hanoi’s streets have already undergone 3-4 floods.

Old floodplains in HCM City still have not been cleared, while new flood sites continue to appear.

Hanoi’s Construction Department plans to trim trees at high risk of falling to ensure safety during the coming rainy season, deputy director of the department Hoang Cao Thang has said.

It may be unusual for hilly areas and islands surrounded by ocean to grapple with flooding, but historic floods last week in Phu Quoc Island and Da Lat, sent local people and tourists into a nightmare scenario.

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of residential quarters and real estate projects has been increasing rapidly, but water drainage systems and sluices have not expanded to meet demand.

Construction on a VND500 billion (US$22 million) flood-prevention project in HCM City’s District 7 is expected to start in the next quarter, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Poor levels of dissolved oxygen (DO) in water was blamed as the main reason for the mass fish deaths at Da Nang’s 29-3 Lake – one of the biggest lakes in the park of the same name.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi authorities have set up a pilot scheme to install cameras in underground sewers to detect the dumping of any building or other waste into the drainage system.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi plans to build eight large-scale abattoirs to meet the demands of consumers by 2015, the municipal People's Committee said.