A portion of the western sea dyke in Khanh Binh Tay Commune in Ca Mau Province’s Tran Van Thoi District. (Photo: VNA/VN)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) 🥃– Ca Mau province is taking measures to mitigate theimpacts of increasing erosion and other natural disasters.
The country’s southernmost province - the hardest by climatechange - lost some 4,900ha of coastal forests in the last 10 years to hightides and disasters. The loss of forests has worsened the erosion. On the eastern coast, where there is no dyke, the erosionsituation is severe. Without a dyke, the coast could lose 200ha of land a year,according to local authorities. In some areas, erosion has reached 80 – 100 metres,affecting infrastructure along the coast and the Ho Chi Minh Road. Erosion and loss of coastal forests is expected to worsen untilyear end because of the north-east monsoon that will cause seawater to rise. Over recent years the province has mobilised funding fromvarious sources to build more than 40km of embankments on the western coast,preventing erosion and recovering mangrove forests. But 16km of the coast still face a serious erosion threat. This year erosion occurred thrice along a total length of 1.9kmof coast and 149 times along rivers involving 3.03km. Natural disasters damaged 7,500ha of crops, mostly rice, 500haof aquaculture and 846 houses, inundating 572 and flattening 104 others. Authorities said they were seeking to speed up construction ofresettlement projects to relocate households living in disaster–prone areas. The province is also taking measures to help people in coastalareas adapt to climate change by ensuring sustainable livelihoods by teachingthem effective fishing and aquaculture models./.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho plans to build an embankment to prevent erosion along the Tra Noc River at the Tra Noc Bridge – Xeo May Bridge section at an estimated cost of 531 billion VND (53.2 million USD).
Erosion was recently detected in three sections measuring about 1,700m of the embankment in Tran Van Thoi and U Minh districts in the southernmost province of Ca Mau.
The Ca Mau Department of Rural & Development said the locality is speeding up the construction of 26km of embankment to prevent the erosion of its western and eastern coasts, with a total investment of about 890 billion VND (38.7 million USD) from the central budget and official development assistance (ODA).
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A portion of the western sea dyke in Khanh Binh Tay Commune in Ca Mau Province’s Tran Van Thoi District. (Photo: VNA/VN) 
