NA Standing Committee mulls over draft revised Law on Water Resources
Hanoi (VNA) – The National Assembly Standing Committee
offered opinions on the draft revised Law on Water Resources during their 21st meeting in Hanoi on March 15.
The bill comprises 88 articles and 10 chapters.
Head of the NA's Committee on Science, Technology
and Environment Le Quang Huy said full-time deputies of the committee agreed on
the need to issue the revised Law on Water Resources to institutionalise the Resolution
on the protection of environment, natural resources, climate change adaptation,
disaster prevention and mitigation adopted by the 13th National
Party Congress.
NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue proposed adding the
important function of water resources in disaster prevention and mitigation,
such as flood drainage, storage, regulation, flooding prevention, protection
corridors, and supplementing the concept of flood drainage corridors.
He also
suggested reviewing regulations on the calculation of water resources taxes in
line with regulations on taxes and prices./.