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.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Mekong Delta, the rice, seafood and fruit granary of the country, is facing landslides and sinking, as it no longer receives enough silt because of limited floodwaters.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Mekong Delta’s inland waterways, which are seen as an advantage of the delta to cut its transport cost and improve the competitiveness of its goods, have not received adequate investment over the past five years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The late arrival of floods in the Mekong Delta provinces this year has been blamed on a major attack by rats on crops there.

VietNamNet Bridge - Artermia egg importers have complained that if they have to pay 5 percent import tax arrears, they will be pushed into a corner, while farmers will suffer the most.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tien and Hau rivers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have become deeper in recent years instead of having silt build-up like in years past, experts have said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Salt water goes into a container, through pipes where it’s processed to remove salt, and finally pure water comes out.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the Mekong Delta are struggling to resume agricultural production because of the lingering effects of the recent drought and saltwater intrusion and a shortage of funds and seeds.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As a former wetland in Cao Lanh District, Dong Thap Province in the Mekong Delta, Xeo Quyt was a revolutionary base in 1960-1975 during the Vietnam War (1955-1975).

Experts have described increasing damming in the Mekong River in China, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia as a major threat to water security in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, calling on the Government to take prompt measures to deal with the situation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – American Dave Singleton has seen the world coaching a game he loves. And now he’s bringing that drive to help grow the game of basketball in the Mekong Delta.