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Mekong delta will be partly submerged, AsiaOne Asia News
By the end of this century, 20 per cent of Vietnam's business hub Ho Chi Minh City will be inundated and 39 per cent of the Mekong Delta will be submerged, according to a Vietnamese study.
The "Mekong Delta Plan: Long Term Vision and Strategy", conducted by Vietnam's Natural Resource and Environment Ministry and the Dutch government, indicates that climate is already changing the delta, which ranks among the top five in the world most likely to be severely affected by climate change, according to the report, which was released last December.
Meanwhile on a sunny day recently.
Record-high tide turns parts of Ho Chi Minh City into river | Society | Thanh Nien Daily
The tide in Ho Chi Minh City reached its peak of 1.7 meters on Friday night, submerging many streets in the country’s largest metropolis.
The tide on the Dong Dien Canal in Nha Be District surge to 1.7 meters, the highest-ever level,
at 6:30 p.m. on Friday while the tide on the Saigon River rose to 1.68 meters, similar the record it set in October last year, said Nguyen Minh Giam, deputy director of the Southern Region Hydro-meteorology Station.
The tides moved a little lower to 1.62 meters on both the canal and the river early Saturday. But this level was still troubling enough to make residents struggle to go to work and school.
On Huynh Tan Phat Street in District 7, hundreds of workers had to push their broken-down motorcycles in knee-deep water to go the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone.
Parts of districts 2 and 4 as well as Binh Tan and Thu Duc districts were also underwater.
Last April, HCMC mayor Le Hoang Quan warned about worsening flooding in the city due to the impacts of climate change, saying the city can only mitigate damages.
“The Mekong Delta will suffer the most when up to 30 percent of the area is affected by rising sea levels in 2050. Ho Chi Minh City is no exception and nearly 700 square kilometers (270 square miles) will be affected," said Quan.
He said city dwellers will have to “live with floods because it will be impossible to totally solve inundation.”
By the end of this century, 20 per cent of Vietnam's business hub Ho Chi Minh City will be inundated and 39 per cent of the Mekong Delta will be submerged, according to a Vietnamese study.
The "Mekong Delta Plan: Long Term Vision and Strategy", conducted by Vietnam's Natural Resource and Environment Ministry and the Dutch government, indicates that climate is already changing the delta, which ranks among the top five in the world most likely to be severely affected by climate change, according to the report, which was released last December.
Meanwhile on a sunny day recently.
Record-high tide turns parts of Ho Chi Minh City into river | Society | Thanh Nien Daily
The tide in Ho Chi Minh City reached its peak of 1.7 meters on Friday night, submerging many streets in the country’s largest metropolis.
The tide on the Dong Dien Canal in Nha Be District surge to 1.7 meters, the highest-ever level,
at 6:30 p.m. on Friday while the tide on the Saigon River rose to 1.68 meters, similar the record it set in October last year, said Nguyen Minh Giam, deputy director of the Southern Region Hydro-meteorology Station.
The tides moved a little lower to 1.62 meters on both the canal and the river early Saturday. But this level was still troubling enough to make residents struggle to go to work and school.
On Huynh Tan Phat Street in District 7, hundreds of workers had to push their broken-down motorcycles in knee-deep water to go the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone.
Parts of districts 2 and 4 as well as Binh Tan and Thu Duc districts were also underwater.
Last April, HCMC mayor Le Hoang Quan warned about worsening flooding in the city due to the impacts of climate change, saying the city can only mitigate damages.
“The Mekong Delta will suffer the most when up to 30 percent of the area is affected by rising sea levels in 2050. Ho Chi Minh City is no exception and nearly 700 square kilometers (270 square miles) will be affected," said Quan.
He said city dwellers will have to “live with floods because it will be impossible to totally solve inundation.”
