VietNamNet Bridge – Many provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are taking measures to secure freshwater for farming and household use since drought and saltwater intrusion is expected to be severe in the 2016-17 dry season.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nine out of the 13 Mekong Delta provinces will get a package of US$ 384 million for climate change response.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Around the end of November when the rice is ripe for harvest, children in the Mekong Delta take to the fields, hunting for rats. A sworn enemy of farmers for long, the rats are known as “Mr. Longtail” in some places.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forty-two construction works have been recognized as ‘green’ in Vietnam and the number is expected to increase, especially as metro areas look to build smart cities.

VietNamNet Bridge - While cross-border management of water resources is a necessary long-term strategy, the question is how to do it, experts say. 

The significant increase in temperatures, a longer dry season and shorter rainy season, rising sea water levels, and stronger southwest and northeast monsoons in the future could be advantages for the development of renewable energy projects.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An Giang Province’s Ta Pa mountain is one of seven peaks named That Son, which means "seven famous mountains".

VietNamNet Bridge – The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has told thermal power plants belonging to EVN to open their doors once a month to local authorities and the public to visit and monitor the operation of the plants.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam, especially the Mekong River Delta, has been warned for 20 years that it will be one of the areas to suffer most seriously from climate change.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will lose nearly 39 per cent of the total area of the MekongDelta – the biggest rice granary of the country if the sea level rises 100cm by the end of the century.

The HCMC People’s Committee has allowed Japanese Sekisui Company to build a water containing reservoir with polypropylene material which aims to ease flooding during heavy rain and high tide. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The General Department of Vietnam Sea and Islands said that Vietnam’s inshore water quality is still good, with most of the indexes meeting the Vietnamese standard. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vegetables and fruits, which brought modest export turnover in the past, have become the new driving force for the country's agriculture as other exports have reached the critical point.

VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists have urged the Vietnamese government to cooperate with Cambodia and draw up a plan to take full advantage of water resources.

Mekong Delta – the ‘land of rivers and water’  – is predicted to lack water in the future, experts warned at a conference on climate change and water resource management in late September. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Why are coal-run thermopower plants located on the Hau River? Why do the plants all use Chinese technology? Will there be another Formosa on the Hau River?

VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists believe that the current three-crop-a-year production policy will not help farmers escape poverty, and will only worsen saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many farmers who depended on catching fish and other aquatic creatures during the flood season in the Cuu Long Delta have switched to other jobs since the delta has not seen major flooding in recent years.

VietNamNet Bridge - An Sinh Xanh Science & Technology has proposed a project to create man-made rain to ease the drought during El Nino. However, scientists are doubtful about the project’s feasibility.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Standing on a sea dyke, Duong Van Dien pointed to the lush forest in front of us, his voice full of happiness.