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Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has drawn up a plan to ensure that power supply will meet the anticipated surge in demand during the dry season this year.

Vice Chairman of the Tay Ninh province People’s Committee Nguyen Manh Hung has requested local agencies to implement urgent solutions to prevent forest fires during this year’s dry season.

The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang is in urgent need of about 100 billion VND (4.47 million USD) to cope with severe saltwater intrusion and protect crops during the dry season.

A number of irrigation facilities in the Central Highland provinces have run out of water, though the dry season has just begun.

The Tay Nguyen Central Highlands needs more irrigation facilities to serve the farming of coffee, one of the main exports of the region.

The water shortage, drought and salt intrusion in the central region and the Central Highlands provinces this year is forecast to be more severe than last year.

Although the dry season has started, many areas in south-eastern region have faced with prolong drought which would affect the lives of local farmers.

HCM City plans to cope with the 2015-16 dry season as well as the effects of El Nino by transforming crop and breeding models and rotating the release of water from the Dau Tieng reservoir.

The southern coastal province of Ca Mau will need about 173 billion VND (7.7 million USD) for its plans on preventing drought and saltwater intrusion in the 2015-2016 dry season.

Thailand’s water situation is becoming critical this year, warned the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) on October 28.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has given the green light for rice import from Vietnam and Thailand in a bid to cater for domestic consumption and stabilise prices.

A number of measures to cope with salinity intrusions in the 2015-2016 dry season in the southern region were presented at a conference recently held in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre.

Thousands of reservoirs and lakes in Central Highlands are short of water for the upcoming dry season.