More efforts to cope with coastal erosion & El Nino

by VTV422 November 2018 Last updated at 17:41 PM

VTV.vn - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked ministries and localities to focus on mitigating coastal erosion and droughts caused by El Nino.

According to the Prime Minister, localities have to tighten control over sand exploitation in areas around estuaries and coasts and must be very careful while dredging river beds.

It is forecast that El Nino will affect Vietnam soon with threats of droughts, particularly in the central region, so there must be proper plans for regulating reservoirs and hydropower plants. Localities must start saving water to prepare for droughts in late 2018 and early 2019. The Prime Minister agreed to take more than 34.2 million USD from the state budget to help the central region fix dangerous coastal erosion areas and dredge some aggradation spots.

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