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As many as 14,472 households in the southernmost province of Ca Mau are facing a shortage of clean water, more than 8,000 of which are in dire need.

The Government has approved a project on constructing sea dikes worth 1.3 trillion VND (58.5 million USD) to tackle climate change in the southernmost province of Ca Mau.

More than 63,000 visitors, including 6,660 foreigners, visited the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Ba Dinh historical and cultural relic site in Hanoi during the holiday.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau has devised five-year measures to manage, protect and develop coastal protective forests as part of efforts to adapt to climate change.

More than 6,000 households in the southernmost province of Ca Mau is facing a severe shortage of water due to the prolonged drought.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau has struggled to effectively resettle residents affected by soil erosion in coastal areas.

With the severe drought showing no signs of easing, economic losses to the southernmost province of Ca Mau have been estimated at tens of billions of Vietnam dong.

Local people in the southernmost coastal province of Ca Mau have created 500 embankments to shield their farming fields from saltwater in an effort to deal with unprecedented severe saline intrusion.

After 3 years of implementation of the Mangroves and Markets Project, shrimp farmers have become more aware of organic production techniques and the need to preserve mangrove forests in their areas.

The People’s Committee of the southernmost province of Ca Mau has declared a drought emergency in the locality with level-one risk after more than 49,000 ha of rice were damaged by water shortages.

Long-lasting drought and saltwater intrusion over the past month have worried farmers in the Mekong Delta provinces of Tra Vinh and Ca Mau.

More than 43,000ha of cajuput trees in Ca Mau province's U Minh Ha forest face the threat of forest fires as prolonged drought has caused water levels to decline rapidly.

A multitude of areas of cajuput forest in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau are at high risk of catching fire, posing a range of challenges for firefighting work in the locality.

As many as 63 fishing boats in the southernmost province of Ca Mau on February 18 were fitted with ICOM radio devices.