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Vietnamese plea to Thailand: Don’t divert the Mekong
Posted by Asia One: None Given on August 16th, 2015
Asia One: The Mekong Delta is Vietnam's most important agricultural area. Each year, the area produces the most rice and fruit in the country. This region also nurtures many freshwater fish species, which are an important source of protein for local people. However, this key food production could be jeopardised by large water management projects upriver, Vietnamese experts have warned. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha voiced plans to use water from the Mekong and Salween rivers to fill dams that have run...
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Ho Chi Minh floods due to poor planning
Posted by Asia One: None Given on June 13th, 2011
Asia One: Urban experts have rejected suggestions that the worsening of HCM City's chronic flood situation is due to climate change, blaming it instead on rapid urban development and unplanned construction.
The country's most populous city is forecast to be among the 10 places in the world to be worst affected by climate change.
But the experts pointed out that the sea level had risen by just a few millimetres because of global warming but the city's rivers were flowing dozens of centimetres higher....
Ancient technology could solve climate change problem
Posted by Asia One: None Given on December 13th, 2010
Asia One: Sri Lanka plans to promote one of its millennia old irrigation technologies as an answer to climate change related environment problems, Central Environment Authority Chairman Dr Charitha Herath said.
Speaking at a workshop in Colombo last week, Dr Herath said that cascade irrigation system had been in practice since ancient Sri Lanka and could be still seen in some places in the dry zone.
"No other country has so many works of irrigation within such a limited area," he added.
Village tank...