Mekong Delta faces peak saltwater intrusion in March, April
Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta will continue to increase in March and April, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorology Forecasting.
The Cai Lon sluice is being built in Kien Giang province. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta willcontinue to increase in March and April, according to the National Centre forHydro-Meteorology Forecasting.
The peak of saltwater intrusion will occur during high tide on March 12 -16,March 27 – April 1, April 9 – 14 and April 24 – 30.
The delta, the country’s largest rice, fruit and seafood producer, is facing ahigher than normal level of saltwater intrusion from the sea through rivermouths in the ongoing dry season. However, it is not as severe as the level ofthe previous dry season.
The delta’s provinces have dredged irrigation canals to store more water andupgraded and built dams and sluices to prevent saltwater intrusion and storefresh water.
Nguyen Thien Phap, head of Tien Giang province’s Irrigation Sub-department,said the province has built eight dams to store fresh water for agriculturalproduction and supply daily use water for 800,000 households.
Farmers in Tien Giang, the country’s largest fruit producer, have storedirrigation water in their orchard ditches for fruit and other crops.
In Ca Mau province, farmers have stored fresh water in containers and haveswitched to growing drought – resistant crops.
The delta sowed the ongoing winter-spring rice one month earlier than normal toavoid a shortage of irrigation water at the end of the crop. Farmers are nowharvesting the winter-spring rice and have had a bumper harvest. The harvest ofthe winter-spring rice is expected to be completed in May./.
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tra Vinh has taken a number of measures to prevent droughts, water shortages, and saltwater intrusion in the upcoming dry season to minimise possible damage caused by them.
The Department of Water Resources Management under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has warned localities in the Mekong Delta to prepare plans to cope with saltwater intrusion.
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The Cai Lon sluice is being built in Kien Giang province. (Photo: VNA) 
