(ĐN)- Vice Chairman Vo Van Chanh of Dong Nai province People's Committee has recently worked with the provincial Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Rescue to discuss ways to deal with drought and salt intrusion in the coming dry season.
(ĐN)- Ministries, sectors and localities nationwide should use communication campaigns to raise public awareness about El Nino and the importance of water saving to cope with the weather pattern, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said at an online conference on October 31.
According to the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Centre, the latest El Nino period between 2014 and 2016 was likely to become one the longest El Ninos in Viet Nam in the last six decades. The average temperature in 2016 is forecast to be higher than normal, possibly with new heat records in the summer.
The rainfall amount might be about 30 to 60 per cent less during the rain season and will trigger severe wide-ranging drought in the coming dry season, reported the centre.
This year, the severe drought already affected 122,000 ha of agricultural land, forcing another 40,000 ha to suspend production and distressed dozens of thousands people due to water shortage.
After the conference, Vice Chairman Vo Van Chanh of Dong Nai province People’s Committee has worked with the provincial Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Rescue to discuss ways to deal with drought and salt intrusion in the coming dry season.
Water shortage, caused by late-coming and early-ending rain season, has affected Dong Nai over the past ten months.
Accordingly, rainfall during this year’s rainy season has been lower than average, at just 80 percent of usual volume.
Among the reservoirs across the province, only some have managed to store 60-80 percent of their capacity.
Dong Nai Department of Agriculture and Rural Development built plans to respond to drought and saltwater encroachment.
Particularly, the sector will focus on connecting water resources from hydroelectricity with irrigation works, and take effective measures to conserve water. It also stressed the need to adjust the seasonal seed structure to mitigate the extreme weather phenomenon's effects.
Reported by L.Q
