22/6 VietnamPlus: Additional relief helps provinces alleviate drought impacts - 231.5 billion VND (nearly 10.4 million USD) will be allocated to help the benefited provinces address drought and saline encroachment impacts in the winter-spring crop.
20/6 VietnamPlus: Farming sector moves to regain growth amid climate change - The prolonging drought and saltwater intrusion have damaged nearly 250,000ha of rice, 18,960 ha of vegetables and more than 149,700ha of industrial plants. Over 288,000 households also lacked running water.
20/6 Thomson Reuters Foundation: Worst drought in 90 years and seawater intrusion in Mekong River delta destroy fruit, rice and sugar crops - 1 million people is in urgent need of food assistance and 2 million people lacking access to drinking water.
10/6 The Jakarta Post: Why ASEAN must pay more attention to the Mekong Delta - The great Mekong River is at its lowest level in a century after experiencing its worst dry spell in 90 years.
10/6 IRIN: Dams, drought and disaster along the Mekong river - In Cambodia, water shortages are reported in 18 of 25 provinces and more than 93,500 poor, rural households are affected by the drought.
7/6 RFA: Vietnam Sees Little Relief from Dangerous Drought - According to a report by Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment, the drought has cost more than 15 trillion Vietnamese dong (U.S. $671 million) for the dry season of 2016.
6/6 The Nation: Mekong dam projects ‘could destroy livelihoods, ecology’ - THE ECOLOGY of the Mekong River could be destroyed within 10 years if dam projects along the river are allowed to continue, Thai and Cambodian non-government organisations have warned.
6/6 Thanh Nien: UN promises to help Vietnam overcome worst water crisis in decades - Truong Duy Hai, vice chairman of Ben Tre province, said more than 80,000 families lack fresh water and have to resort to salty water. He said salt water has encroached 50 kilometers deep into the land.
31/5 Thanh Nien: Vietnam's 2016 drought-hit rice output to fall 1.5 percent - Vietnam's rice exports this year will dip 4.45 percent from 2015 to 6.44 million tonnes, partly due to drought in the Delta.
28/5 New York Times: Drought and ‘Rice First’ Policy Imperil Vietnamese Farmers - The Mekong Delta, Vietnam’s premier rice growing region, is suffering its worst drought since French colonial administrators began recording statistics in 1926. Giant cracks, some a foot deep, gouge the hard earth; brown stalks of dead rice litter the fields; and the dryness is so severe even the pests lie shriveled on the ground.
23/5 Mekong Commons: Tra Su wetlands in the Mekong delta losing its biodiversity due to drought - The Tra Su wetland forests cover more than 850 hectares, and holds an extraordinary range of biodiversity of plants, fish, and wetland birds and animals such as storks, herons, egrets, snakes, turtles and many kinds of bats.
12/5 VietNam News: Mekong provinces help locals fight drought - Authorities in the Mekong Delta provinces have helped locals cope with the prolonged drought and salinity in rivers, minimising the losses caused by the twin disasters
9/5 Thanh Nien: Historic drought forces Vietnamese farmers to migrate for city jobs - Months of extreme drought, the worst in the Mekong Delta’s history, has cast a heavy spell in the agriculture province Soc Trang, almost turning it into abandoned land.
27/4 Business Insider: Vietnam is being crippled by its worst drought in nearly a century - Vietnam's breadbasket southwestern region has been hit by the worst drought in 90 years, badly damaging the nation's economy.
19/4 Thanh Nien: Drought killing Vietnam rice crops compounds Mekong water crisis - The dry spell in the once-fertile Mekong Delta is devastating food supplies in southern Vietnam and threatening to reduce global exports of rice, seafood and coffee
5/4 VietNam News: Water releases help Delta - Farmers in the Mekong Delta have been told to draw water since levels have risen in rivers following the release of water by China and Laos from hydropower dams on the upstream Mekong River
1/3 Channel NewsAsia: Vietnam hit by worst drought in 90 years - Scientists blame the ongoing 2015-2016 El Nino weather phenomenon, one of the most powerful on record, for the current drought
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