About 15 million litres of clean water has been delivered to thedrought-affected districts of Thuan Nam and Bac Ai in southerncentral Ninh Thuan province as part of the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC)’surgent relief to local residents.
The water isdonated by an affiliate of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group andthe Coca-Cola Beverages Vietnam Co. Ltd. It was transported to NinhThuan’s Thap Cham train station free-of-charge by a subsidiary of theVietnam Railway Corporation.
The water will be distributed to households in Thuan Nam and Bac Ai districts.
Ninh Thuan is also one of the four drought-affected provincesreceiving 900 water tanks with a capacity of 300 litres each from theVRC.
The province has a population of 560,000 with 10 percent of the total households at or below the poverty line.
Acute drought from January to April this year has dried up localreservoirs, rivers and streams. Only 19 million cubic metres of waterremains at 20 reservoirs across the province, comprising less than 10percent of the water volume in years past.
The mostheavily-affected areas are located in agricultural districts such as BacAi, Ninh Phuoc, Ninh Son, Thuan Nam , and Ninh Hai. Thuan Namand Bac Ai have suffered from two consecutive years of drought.-VNA
The water isdonated by an affiliate of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group andthe Coca-Cola Beverages Vietnam Co. Ltd. It was transported to NinhThuan’s Thap Cham train station free-of-charge by a subsidiary of theVietnam Railway Corporation.
The water will be distributed to households in Thuan Nam and Bac Ai districts.
Ninh Thuan is also one of the four drought-affected provincesreceiving 900 water tanks with a capacity of 300 litres each from theVRC.
The province has a population of 560,000 with 10 percent of the total households at or below the poverty line.
Acute drought from January to April this year has dried up localreservoirs, rivers and streams. Only 19 million cubic metres of waterremains at 20 reservoirs across the province, comprising less than 10percent of the water volume in years past.
The mostheavily-affected areas are located in agricultural districts such as BacAi, Ninh Phuoc, Ninh Son, Thuan Nam , and Ninh Hai. Thuan Namand Bac Ai have suffered from two consecutive years of drought.-VNA
