HCM CITY – Climate change has a huge impact on HCM City’s water resources, the head of its public water utility has warned. “Climate change, especially drought and saltwater intrusion [into rivers], has directly affected the Đồng Nai and Sài Gòn Rivers, making water treatment difficult,” Trần Văn Khuyên, chairman of the Sài Gòn Water Supply Corporation, told Việt Nam News Agency. To cope, the corporation has actively worked to adjust the water supply master plan, incorporating provisions to build more lakes and tanks to store treated and untreated water and pumping stations. Now water in the Đồng Nai and Sài Gòn have salinity levels of 12mg/litre, 2mg higher than normal but lower than at the same time last year when it was 30mg/litre. “This year we don’t need to worry about the salinity level because the allowed limit is 250mg, and we plan to draw water from Dầu Tiếng and Trị An Reservoirs and from under the ground to reduce salinity levels,” Hoàng Hà, head of the corporation’s water quality management department, said. Đặng Hoà Vĩnh, head of the HCM City Natural Geography Institute’s Water Resource Department, said: “This year the drought is not expected to be as serious… Read full this story

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