HCM City, Mekong Delta face serious land subsidence
Land subsidence in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta has ranged from 0.1 to 81 centimetres in the last 10 years, according to the Water Resources Management Department at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
The figure was reported at a conference on land subsidence in the Mekong Delta, co-organised by the Ministry of Construction and the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Can Tho city last week.
Nguyen Minh Khuyen, Deputy Director of the Water Resources Management Department, said the department had set up 339 monitoring points for recording land subsidence in HCM City and the Mekong Delta in the last 10 years. Of these, 306 points saw land subsidence.
An Lac ward of Binh Tan district in HCM City saw land subsidence of up to 81cm, Bac Lieu province 62.6cm, Soc Trang 53.1cm, and Can Tho 52.4cm.
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