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700 degraded dams to be fixed: official

The Water Resources Directorate (WRD) plans to repair some 700 reservoirs at high risk of bursting by 2030, an official has said.
700 degraded dams to be fixed: official ảnh 1A reservoir of Huoi Quang Hydro-power Plant in northern mountainous province of ​Son La. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - The Water Resources Directorate (WRD) plans torepair some 700 reservoirs at high risk of bursting by 2030, an official has said.

Dam safety was one of the key issues discussed at a conference on the nationalirrigation strategy until 2030 with vision towards 2050 held in Hanoi on November23. The conference was jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development and the World Bank.

WRD’s Department of Clean Water and Rural Environment Deputy Director Le HongNam said that authorities were planning to improve reservoir safety, inparticular 700 seriously-degraded ones.

According to a report by the WRD, there were a total of 1,200 degraded damsnationwide, most of which were built three to four decades ago, currently atimminent risk of bursting especially during heavy rains or storms.

A project funded by the World Bank, Vietnam’s Dam Rehabilitation and SafetyImprovement Project, was already working on some 450 damaged reservoirs whichwere facing safety risks.

Nam said that the 700 dams in question are not those being fixed by the WorldBank project, implying that Vietnam for the first time might seriously tacklethe dam safety problem.-VNA
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