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MoNRE moves to ensure water resource security amid climate change

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has promulgated an action plan with the aim of promoting cooperation, sharing and monitoring trans-boundary water resources from now to 2020.
MoNRE moves to ensure water resource security amid climate change ảnh 1Illustrative image (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry ofNatural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has promulgated an action plan withthe aim of promoting cooperation, sharing and monitoring trans-boundary waterresources from now to 2020.

The plan also looks to improving the management,conservation, and utilisation of water resources to serve the country’s sustainablesocio-economic development and ensure water security amid climate change.

The MoNRE has been building institutional andlegal documents in the direction of refining technical standards andregulations regarding the management of water resources, as well asimplementing financial policies to provide clean water for the daily use andsewage treatment.

It has been conducting a study on waterresources as well as evaluation and forecast of climate change impacts on waterresources, thereby submitting a national strategy on water resources through2030, with a vision towards 2050, to the Prime Minister for approval.
The MoNRE willincrease the dissemination of information about policies and regulations toraise public awareness of managing, using and protecting water resources, whilekeeping a close watch on the exploitation and usage of water resources in theupper reaches of the Red and Mekong rivers.

It will draw maps on water resources with scalesof 1/100,000 for 50 percent of the nation’s total area, 1/50,000 forwater-shortage regions, and 1/25,000 for key areas, alongside with building anational database and a cross-border water resource monitoring network.

The ministry will also classify water resourcesand recover contaminated rivers in addition to controlling reductions in undergroundand surface water resources in line with the Vietnam Sustainable DevelopmentStrategy for 2011-2020.-VNA
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