Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Water supply and sanitation in Vietnam is characterized by challenges and achievements. Among the achievements is a substantial increase in access to water supply and sanitation between 1990 and 2010, nearly universal metering, and increased investment in wastewater treatment since 2007.
The water availability in Vietnam is supposed to be 830-840 billion m 3 annually from which approximately 37% is generated on Vietnamese territory. More than 2,000 rivers (with a length >10 km) and more than 100 main rivers belong to Vietnam. 13 of these rivers have a basin area of more than 10,000 km 2 with 10 being international ones.
For example, revisions to water management governance have contributed to recent improvements in the wetland degradation situation. [38] Forests: The integrity of Vietnam's forest landscape is relatively low; on the 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index, Vietnman ranked 104th globally out of 172 countries, with a mean score of 5.35/10. [39]
Vietnam National Television reported on March a total of 33,000 hectares of rice fields damaged and nearly 70,000 households suffer from lack of water. [2] The drought is attributed to a lack of rain, combined with increase water consumption and storage of water in upstream dams, such as the controversial Xayaburi Dam in Laos.
Reservoirs in Vietnam (10 P) Pages in category "Water supply and sanitation in Vietnam" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE, Vietnamese: Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường) is a government ministry in Vietnam responsible for: land, water resources; mineral resources, geology; environment; hydrometeorology; climate change; surveying and mapping; management of the islands and the sea.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The 2016 Vietnam marine life disaster was a water pollution crisis affecting Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên–Huế provinces in central Vietnam. Fish carcasses were reported to have washed up on the beaches of Hà Tĩnh province from at least 6 April 2016. [ 1 ]