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Climate Change
Solving difficult problems for Mekong Delta
The integrated development planning for the Mekong Delta region is the basis for coordinating and allocating resources for development.


In the past few years, climate change showed a strong impact on the Mekong Delta, not from the sea (due to sea level rise), but it caused a lot of abnormalities in the weather phenomena, such as heavy rain, typhoons, floods, and so on. Moreover, climate change associates with weather phenomena like El Nino and La Nina creates more complex situations for the Mekong Delta. Last year, it was lack of flood water; this year’s the flood water comes back a lot.

The Mekong Delta region is interested by an ​​international community for the many concerned countries and poor communities that rely on the river. Create a program to exploit this river, share reasonable interests among nations, have come up with but it is difficult to find a common voice. In fact, it is difficult to limit other countries to exploit the Mekong River for their national interests. We must accept as a natural phenomenon and find our own solutions.

So far, strategically, the Mekong Delta has been determining the direction of agricultural development, including rice associated with food security and exports, aquaculture in association with exports, fruit trees to secure domestic supply, and export in the future. This article does not discuss the region's development strategy, but it needs to clearly define the regional development strategy before discussing the regional development management solution.

For more than two past decades, the story of Mekong Delta development and development associated with climate change and sea level rise has been set out. For the Mekong Delta development strategy, the Government has decided to invest in many flood-related programs and Western flood drainage projects, the flood control program, many irrigation programs for fisheries, 3 crops of rice, the program for building the population cluster to fight against flood.

Kim Xuyen
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