Most of the households live in Ben Tre, Soc Trang, Kien Giang, Ca Mau, Bạc Lieu, Long An and Tra Vinh provinces. The provinces have set up free water supply sites and transported clean water from other places to these households. … [Read more...] about Rural residents in Mekong Delta need access to clean water
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Erosion problem keeps getting worse in the Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta Region has a total of 564 erosion spots that are over 834km long. 104 spots that are 203km long are the most dangerous. Since 2010, erosion in Mekong Delta has become more urgent and dangerous every year. The Mekong Delta has lost about 300ha of land and mangrove forest to erosion. On May 27, the banks of the Hau River were washed away and one-third of the surface of Highway 91 was lost, threatening dozens of households. On May 13, the erosion on Bui Huu Nghia Street swept two houses into Binh Thuy River. Luckily no one was hurt. In April 2019, serious erosion occurred at the construction site of an incomplete embankment at the O Mon River in Can Tho City. Around 60 metres long and 5 metres deep land was lost. About 11 households were affected. The embankment project was approved after serious erosion occurred there in 2019, damaging 11 houses. Research and surveys have revealed erosion were caused by various reasons such as climate change. The construction of … [Read more...] about Erosion problem keeps getting worse in the Mekong Delta
Chinese dams withhold water, worsen 2019 drought in Mekong Delta: researchers
If local stakeholders, whether they be governmental or non-governmental, adopt these methods or press for near-real time reporting from Eyes on Earth or another research institution, then these findings could become commonly held knowledge and used for the betterment of the Mekong at large. … [Read more...] about Chinese dams withhold water, worsen 2019 drought in Mekong Delta: researchers
Mekong Delta provinces discuss post-Covid-19 tourism strategy
The director remarked that a high-speed boat service connecting Can Tho with Con Dao in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province and tour services on the Victoria Mekong yacht between Can Tho and Chau Doc will be launched on July 1, in addition to new travel services set to be rolled out in early May at community tourism and ecotourism sites. … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta provinces discuss post-Covid-19 tourism strategy
How PIND Foundation is addressing unemployment in the Niger Delta
It will be helpful to have an integrated and systematic way of collecting, sharing, and making data available for use. If this is available, an organization like PIND implementing a project requiring employment data will not need to spend extra money doing its own data collection. Instead, organizations can access such data easily and be faster in getting things done with their planned project and utilizing the funds on actual interventions rather than fresh data analysis. We certainly would have benefited from such when we were to start the youth employment pathways project that we implemented for the Ford Foundation, as we had to commission a fresh study and invest in data gathering to understand the environment. … [Read more...] about How PIND Foundation is addressing unemployment in the Niger Delta
