China to release dam water to help fight drought in Vietnam

[Dungeness]

China to release dam water to help fight drought in Vietnam
By Truong Son, Thanh Nien News
HANOI - Tuesday, March 15, 2016 14:20

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• Vietnam hit by worst drought in 90 years

• Vietnam's southern delta braces for worst drought in century

Vietnam welcomes China’s plan to release water from its Jinghong dam on the Mekong River to help mitigate severe drought in some Vietnamese provinces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday.
MOFA’s deputy spokesperson Pham Thu Hang told the media at a briefing that Vietnam had asked China to increase the outflow from the dam in Yunnan Province since some Mekong Delta provinces are suffering from drought and saltwater intrusion.
Chinese authorities announced they would quickly implement a plan to discharge water from March 15 to April 4, she said.
The protection and sustainable use of water resources in the Mekong River is the shared responsibility of countries along the river basin to harmonize the interests of the riparian nations and their peoples, Hang added.
Around 140,000 hectares of rice have been damaged in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam’s largest rice producer, due to severe drought, Vietnam News Agency reported.
More than 150,000 households with 600,000 people face a shortage of clean water, according to the report.

China to release dam water to help fight drought in Vietnam | Politics | Thanh Nien Daily

 

[Dungeness]

China to release water from dam to alleviate SE Asia drought


March 15, 2016

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A father with his children walk over the cracked soil of a 1.5 hectare dried up fishery at the Novaleta town in Cavite province, south of Manila May 26, 2015. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will release water from a dam in its southwestern province of Yunnan to help alleviate a drought in parts of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

The water will be released until April 10 from the Jinghong dam, ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a daily news briefing.

It will benefit Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, Lu added.

China "hopes it can be of help in alleviating the drought downstream", he said.

According to Vietnamese media, some 140,000 ha of rice in the Mekong Delta has been damaged by the drought with around 600,000 people facing drinking water shortages.

While China and Vietnam are involved in an increasingly bitter territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the two Communist-lead countries have traditionally had close ties.

Beijing and Hanoi have also been trying to repair ties severely harmed in 2014 when Beijing parked an oil rig in waters off the Vietnamese coast, leading to anti-China riots.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Nick Macfie)

China to release water from dam to alleviate SE Asia drought - Yahoo News

 

[C130]

how much is this going to help

 

[Dungeness]

how much is this going to help

Outgoing water will be increased from 1000 m3/s to 2190 m3/s. The incoming water is only 500 m3/s this year.

 

[LacViet]

China, you have keep your words.

China, Mekong countries launch Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework - Xinhua | English.news.cn

 

[Kyle Sun]

They need to pay for that.

We spend huge amount money to build that dam.

 

[seven7seven]

I bet all the Viet posters here feeling really salty about this. Vietnam relying on China

This should shut up Vietnam dissent in SCS for a while at least. Otherwise, China turns off the tap.

 

[LacViet]

They need to pay for that.

We spend huge amount money to build that dam.

I bet all the Viet posters here feeling really salty about this. Vietnam relying on China

This should shut up Vietnam dissent in SCS for a while at least. Otherwise, China turns off the tap.

China has obeyed our demand, bro.

 

[Kyle Sun]

China has obeyed our demand, bro.

The Viets are the.master of human being

 

[TaiShang]

China releases water from dam to alleviate SE Asia drought
China Daily, March 16, 2016

The Jinghong Hydropower Station will increase water discharges to ease effects of a regional drought. [Photo by Yang Zheng/China Daily]



A Southwest China hydropower station has increased water discharges to up to 2,190 cubic meters per second on a trans-boundary river, in order to provide emergency water supply to Vietnam and other countries in the drought-afflicted Southeast Asian region, Chen Lei, Minister of Water Resources said on Wednesday.

The Jinghong hydropower station in Southwest China's Yunnan province will increase its water discharge on the Lancang-Mekong River through April 10. It will benefit Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, said Chen.

The Mekong River, whose upper part is known in China as the Lancang River, is an important water source for the five countries on the Indochinese Peninsula－Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Due to the prolonged effects of El Nino conditions which started taking a toll last year, the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam is going through the worst drought in nearly 100 years, and large areas of paddy fields will likely be damaged, reported Vietnam news portal Thanh Nien News in February.

According to Vietnamese media, some 140,000 ha of rice in the Mekong Delta has been damaged by the drought with around 600,000 people facing drinking water shortages.

China and countries along the river on the Indochinese Peninsula are "friendly neighbors", and they should help each other to cope with difficulties, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang at a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday, referring to the drought that countries along the river have faced since the end of last year.

Reports quoted the Foreign Ministry of Vietnam as saying the country, which is in the lower reaches of the Mekong River, has requested that China increase water discharges by the Jinghong Hydropower Station to help ease the drought.

Lu said China has decided to "overcome its own difficulties" and to provide the emergency water supply to benefit the five countries.

 

[Dungeness]

China has obeyed our demand, bro.

Ya, we all know how ungrateful you people can be.

 

[vtnsx]

China has obeyed our demand, bro.

Vietnam needs to control the Strait of Malacca. Any Chinese cargo ship that passes through need to pay a fee through Vietnam water or risk getting sink.

 

[Dungeness]

Vietnam needs to control the Strait of Malacca. Any Chinese cargo ship that passes through need to pay a fee through Vietnam water or risk getting sink.

Vietnamese think they need to annex Cambodia and Laos and Sub Mekong, need to own whole South China Sea, now they think they need to control the Strait of Malacca. What else you Vietnamese think you want to control? How about Philippines and Malaysia for a start? Then Guangxi Province of China and Thailand?

For a small weak country with such a greed, if you don't deserve to be fxcked, who dose?

 

[Zhang Fan]

Vietnam needs to control the Strait of Malacca. Any Chinese cargo ship that passes through need to pay a fee through Vietnam water or risk getting sink.

Nationalism is the last refuge of losers,you embodied that quite well

 

[vtnsx]

Vietnamese think they need to control Sub Mekong, need to own whole South China Sea, now they think they need to control the Strait of Malacca. What else you Vietnamese think you want to control? How about Philippines and Malaysia for a start? Then Guangxi Province of China and Thailand?

For a small weak country with such a greed, if you don't deserve to be fxcked, who dose?

Lol, so you think China owns the whole SCS? you're delusional. China owns nothing and nobody. PERIOD! In fact, China is getting owned by Argentina. US and Vietnam don't have to do anything. They are watching the show. More to come.

Stop acting like China is the king of the world, when they are not. LOL
USA doesn't show its superpower, it's power comes from great allies and relationships. The world would force China into bankruptcies then they would have nothing left to maintain those man-made islands. It would be ghost islands. Start now or die like the rest. Look at Russia.

Chinese reputation around the world is getting worse. China is the new North Korea soon. LOL

Nationalism is the last refuge of losers,you embodied that quite well

aww, thanks for the complement but I'm afraid I'm not as worthy as you on the loser note. I'd rather hand it to you. You look better with the word. LOL