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Vietnam's HCM City to invest big in fighting inundation

Xinhua, May 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City has approved a 400-million-U.S. dollar project on preventing and fighting inundation in the 2016-2021 period, the municipal authorities said Wednesday.

Ho Chi Minh City will borrow 400 million U.S. dollars from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to implement the project, the municipal People's Committee said, adding that the city has invested some 29 trillion Vietnamese dong (nearly 1.3 billion U.S. dollars) in dealing with inundation in its flooding-prone areas in the past decade.

Under the new project, the city will focus on building dykes, sewers and water quality monitoring stations and improving drainage systems in many districts.

The Vietnamese government has instructed Ho Chi Minh City to minimize inundation in the next five years, at least in its urban districts. Endit