An Giang works to mitigate drought, salinity affects
The Mekong Delta province of An Giang is preparing to prevent and respond to drought and salinity to ensure production and water supply, as the locality is set to experience hotter-than-average temperatures this summer.
An Giang (VNA) – TheMekong Delta province of Kien Giang is preparing to prevent and respond todrought and salinity to ensure production and water supply, as the locality is setto experience hotter-than-average temperatures this summer.
Since early this year, the sub-departmentof irrigation of An Giang and other agencies have surveyed areas with high riskof water shortage, drought and salinity.
At the same time, the provincehas planned to construct 409 irrigation works with a total length of 370km at acost of 333.2 billion VND (14.65 million USD).
According to Vuong Huu Tieng, headof the An Giang Sub-department of Irrigation, the province has completed 10percent of the works and hopes to finish another 20 percent soon.
Meanwhile, An Giang is expandingthe capacity of operational waterworks, extending pipe systems and taking waterfrom water plants from neighbouring localities.
The sub-department has alsoreserved more than 1,000 cubic metres of water in Xoai So and O Tuc Xa lakes toprovide water for daily use and forest fire prevention.
Tieng added that although thisyear’s drought may not be as servere as last year, high temperatures willaffect farming productivity.
The sub-department reported that AnGiang faces water shortages for production in about 50,000 hectares of plainland and about 7,000 hectares in mountainous areas. Meanwhile, salinity mayaffect 17,064 hectares of farm in Tri Ton and Thoai Son districts and 2,000hectares of fresh shrimp farms in Thoai Son and Chau Phu districts.
Thousands of households along theLong Xuyen-Rach Gia canal and mountainous areas of Tri Ton and Tinh Biendistricts are also at risk of water shortages, it said.-VNA
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