... significant increase in rainfall in wet season resulting in an increase inriver flow. By contrast, the decreasing trend of river flow in dry season is a consequence of the decline of rainfall and increase ... in Thua Thien - Hue Province and is of great economic and tourism importance for the province. Theriverbasin is expected to be one of the most vulnerable basins inthe Central Vietnam where ... Conclusions The study has provided a quantitative understanding of the impacts of climate change on water resources inthe Huong River basin. Climate change will result in an increase in precipitation...
... considerablystrengthen the arguments for sustaining aquatic biodiversity in the Mekong. 1BIODIVERSITY AND FISHERIES INTHEMEKONGRIVERBASIN Mekong Development Series No. 2May 2003Published in Phnom ... needs. In addition to the 1995 Agreement onSustainable Development of theMekongRiver Basin, these instruments include the Code of Conduct forResponsible Fisheries which FAO prepared in 1995, the Convention ... recommendations Foreword The fishery of the Lower MekongBasin is one of the most abundant river fisheries inthe world. It is of vital importance to the 55 million people who live in the basin. Not only...
... million hectares): mainly inthe Long Xuyen - Ha Tien quadrangle, the Plain of Reeds, the West Hau river Fig.1: TheMekongRiverBasin and Land forms of the MD in Vietnam WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT ... complicated. The main factors are river discharge, local rainfall and runoff, the amplitude of tides inthe East Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, the slope of the river bed, the wind velocity ... and the saltwater/acid water- affected zone; • to strength water resources management capacity by training and equipping to the water staff; • to install water environmental monitoring systems...
... recorded the acidity inthe rain waterin April, May yearly. No using of rain waterin early rainy season is recommended as way to treat the air-dust and other pollutants deposited in the house-roofs ... plant inthe city, except some wastewater treatment works in industrial zones. The project of fresh-watering the Ca Mau Peninsula to be invested in enlarging irrigation systems, widening channels ... in treatment processes intheMekong for quite a long time. In rural areas, villagers buy alum in solid form and stir it into riverwaterinthe storage jars. After a few minute stirring, the...
... lands inthe dry season. The shortage of freshwater leads to increasing salinity intrusion throughout the MD coastal provinces. (v) The floods: Discharge of theMekongriver during the wet ... level between the sea level inriver estuaries and the inner lands. Also the MD is Figure 1: TheMekongRiver and the MD map The second International Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environment ... Overview of the Drinking Water Supply Situation intheMekong River Delta. Proceedings of the SANSED Project Workshop. CanTho University, Vietnam The second International Symposium on Southeast...
... Sites The environmental setting of the McKenzie Riverbasin and a discussion of sampling sites inthebasin have been previously reported in McCarthy and others (2009) and Kelly and others ... Deployed inthe Mckenzie River Basin, Oregon, During 2007. 5Appendix 2. Data from Passive Samplers Deployed inthe Mckenzie River Basin, Oregon, During 2010. 5Figures Figure 1. Map showing study ... Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) has implemented a source protection program (Eugene Water and Electric Board, 2000) that includes monitoring waterinthe McKenzie Riverbasin for the presence...
... fields and flood plains. Some of them learn to swim at early age, but others were not trained. There is no official swimming training inthe school program intheMekong River Delta. It seems ... from drowning. In peak flow periods, all children (over 160,000) inthe high inundated areas are not attending their schools. The beginning and the end of the rainy season are the best time ... showing high percentage of child deaths inthe total the losses of life inthe flood seasons inthe MD. Save the Children (2003) reported that the vast majority of the drowning deaths in recent...
... been built intheMekong Delta. Almost these water works were investigated by the national budget or the contribution of the local people and government according to the motto: “Both the Government ... to the fields of the Delta. Flooding water eliminates a great part of the salinity inthe soil inthe coastal areas and flushes toxicity released from acid sulfate soil. Also, floods kill the ... between the warm atmosphere and the storms in the tropical monsoon Asia. • Survey and forecast the effects of the dams and irrigation systems in upstream to the low parts of the basin. • Estimate...
... forest inthe Upper and the Lower U Minh areas were burned, accounting for approximately 57% (17% inthe Lower U Minh and 40% inthe Upper U Minh) of the total Melaleuca forest area. Inthe U Minh ... Fig.1: TheMekongRiverBasin and Land forms of the MD in Vietnam The main objective of this article is the presentation of the forest wetland inventory process, applied to both the inland ... of the MD receives between 1800 and 2200 mm of rainfall. At the end of the rainy season, due to the combination of floodwater draining from the upstream areas, the overland flood water entering...
... list of the largest rivers inthe world and is longest riverin southeastern Asia. From its source in Tibet, theriver flows to the South China Sea through Yunnan, China, forms the border partly ... runoff water yearly to sea. About 80 percent of annual flow volume enters the low lying parts of thebasinin Vietnam as the flood season from June to November. The river network of theMekong ... accepts yearly all the water flood volume of the basin. About 1.2 to 1.9 million ha of land, mainly inthe North parts of the MD such as the LongXuyen quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds, affected...
... species from theMekongRiver Basin A guide to larvae and juvenilesof some common sh species from the MekongRiver Basin ISSN: 1683-1489 Mekong River CommissionMeeting the Needs, Keeping the BalanceMRC ... common sh species from theMekongRiver Basin xFigure 3. Map of the Lower MekongRiver Basin MyanmarChinaPage 37CyprinidaeAdult Barbonymus altus (Günther, 1868)Red-tailed tinfoilAn omnivorous ... Organisation of the United NationsIUCN International Union for the Conservation of NatureLMB Lower Mekong Basin max. maximummin. minimumMRC MekongRiver CommissionMRCS MekongRiver Commission...