District administrations take heed of urban renewal, tackle pollution
Party committees of districts in Ho Chi Minh City are determined to tackle environmental pollution and inundation in addition to urban renewal for the period 2020-2025.
Dyke breaches, farmers rush to save rice paddies
Despite efforts to fortify the dyke following recent downpours by hundreds of adult members of a village and military soldiers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak who have been working relentlessly over the past days, a section of dyke in the field in Quang Dien Commune breached and the field was inundated yesterday.
HCMC to build seven reservoirs to tackle inundation
The Ho Chi Minh City Steering Center of the Urban Flood Control Program and related agencies evaluated the effectiveness of the reservoir proposing in building seven underground reservoirs using Japanese Cross-Wave technology yesterday.
District gov'ts put down canal encroachment
Deputy Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh People’s Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen asked relevant agencies to completely ban canal encroachment narrowing of water flows; subsequently leading to inundation.
Public concerned about chronic inundation in rainy season
Flooding was seen everywhere in Ho Chi Minh City after the downpours yesterday, city dwellers worried that inundation would get worse during this year’s rainy season as the VND10 trillion (US$438.5 million) project on flood management measures has been halted indefinitely to wait for completion of related paper formalities.