VietNamNet Bridge - The fish caught from the Mekong River alone make up 3.1 percent of Vietnam’s GDP.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “Com dep”, flat glutinous green rice is a specialty of the Khmer in Soc Trang and people in the Mekong River Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge - Waste from shrimp ponds is expected to be turned into electricity to serve shrimp farming or the national grid.

VietNamNet Bridge - A series of water reservoirs in the upper course of Mekong River could lead to a loss of 90 percent of alluvium in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City, Hanoi and residents in other urban areas are now faced with frequent flooding, a result of people not living in harmony with nature, scientists say.

VietNamNet Bridge - The continued water discharge by hydropower plants in China in recent days has caused flooding in the Red River section in Vietnam’s Lao Cai province.

Mekong Delta provinces are rich in orchards with many kinds of fruit for export, but a shortage of disease-free seedlings is threatening the industry.

If there are no reasonable solutions to adapt to climate change, Mekong River Delta residents will have to scale down their agricultural production in the near future, or go bankrupt because of lack of materials for production.

VietNamNet Bridge - With the qualifications of Vietnamese scientists, Vietnam is capable of exporting highly qualified workers, analysts say.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Thai government’s statement in late July that it is considering bringing water from the Mekong, Moei and Salween rivers to farmland to nine of its provinces has raised major concerns.

VietNamNet Bridge - The unmanned ditching machine invented by Vo Van Phuoc, a farmer in HCM City, has been favored by farmers because it saves labor and expenses on field work.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 200 households in the Mekong River Delta province of Tien Giang's Cai Lay Town are complaining about construction of a bypass route of National Highway No 1 crossing through their community.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam will continue developing coal-run thermal power plants in the upcoming years despite the anticipated impact on the environment, as no better solution has been found.

The rapid decrease of the sediment load in the Mekong River has been largely caused by hydropower dams. WWF in Vietnam last week said suspended sediment load decreased from 160 million tons to 75 million tons between 1992 and 2014.

Le ThiTrang, 48, a farmer in Ba Tien 1 Village in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta's TienGiang Province, dreams of the day her family has a house without a leaky roof.

VietNamNet Bridge - Landslides in the Mekong River Delta have depleted natural resources and damaged many houses.

VietNamNet Bridge - Landslides in the Mekong River Delta have deprived locals’ of their homes and depleted natural resources. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists call sand the “skeleton” from which the Mekong River Delta was formed. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the central province of Quang Nam are concerned about the salinity intrusion which could destroy hundreds of hectares of rice fields.

A number of projects to supply freshwater to Mekong Delta provinces are still on paper as local authorities lack sufficient capital to implement them.