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National water resources strategy towards the year 2020

Water is a natural resource, a vital substance for human life. Life is impossible without water. We use clean water for domestic consumption, health protection and sanitation. Water is crucial to agriculture, aquaculture, industry and other sectors of the economy. It is needed for hy ower and development of waterway transportation. Water is also important in maintaining the environment's integrity and sustainability. Water is precious but limited, and is a highly vulnerable resource. Besides its benefits, water can become a danger for human beings and for the environment.

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Examining the result of the project on building pilot arsenic filters at My Tan commune, My Loc district, Nam Dinh province.

In the scope of the project “Arsenic treatment model and information, dissemination and education programs” sponsored by Lien Aid - a Singapore NGO, on September 13rd 2009, Center of Water Resources Information-Economic, Department of Water Resources Management, coordinating with Lien Aid organization, has examined the working of these pilot arsenic filters built at My Tan commune, My Loc district, Nam Dinh province.

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Water at core of climate change impacts-UN experts

The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past cooperation such as over the Indus or Mekong Rivers to help avert future conflicts, experts said on Sunday.

» Climate Change and Transboundary Waters
» Water Crisis Fact
» United Nations warns that proposed dams in China, Southeast Asia could damage mighty Mekong

Scientific - Tecnology

Google bring water data to life

With all the power of 21st century collaboration technology, nothing to date has tamed the massive amounts of disparate water information locked away in diverse database systems. But that may have changed last week when Google Labs launched Fusion Tables, a powerful new online research and data organizing tool that makes it much easier to share and navigate the world’s digital science and technical archives.

» HCM City officials put their heads together over hospital wastewater

International cooperation

AUSAID support in water resource management - AUSAID Project

Based on the Vietnamese Government'spolicy in rural development, AUSAID gave high priority for projects on water management, including clean water supply and sanitary for rural and uban areas. In 1998,1999 AUSAID sent missions to various areas in Vietnam for investigating the situation in above mentioned subjects.

» National Cooperation in Water Resource Management - ADB TA 3528-VIE Project
» Water Sector Support (Water SPS) - Danida Project

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Laos' Don Sahong Dam Could Affect Millions: Report

An independent scientific report made public last week has revealed that the Don Sahong Dam, proposed for the Mekong River’s mainstream in southern Laos, could threaten the food security of millions of people in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. The report was written by Dr. Ian Baird, an affiliate of the Polis Project on Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria, Canada, and a leading expert on fisheries in the Khone Falls area of Southern Laos.

» ]">Saving the Mekong

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"Water is a natural resource of special importance, the essential component of life and the environment, deciding the existence and sustainable development of the country; on the other hand, water may also cause disasters to humans and the environment."