A project entitled Integrated and Sustainable Water Management of the
Hong (Red)-Thai Binh river system in a Changing Climate will be
implemented over three years with funding of 1.7 million EUR (more than
2.2 million USD).
The project is being funded by the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Technical University of Milan and the
Institute of Water Resources Planning under the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
It is aimed at addressing issues regarding
water allocation and distribution among various public and private
sectors, contributing to meeting Vietnam's long-terms needs for water
resources, maintaining essential ecological services and improving the
economic benefits of hydropower production and agriculture.
The
project is the follow-up to an existing collaboration between the
Technical University of Milan and the Institute of Water Resources
Planning that dates back to 2007.
According to the institute, the
Red River basin originates in China and flows into the East Sea
covering an area of 169,000 square kilometres, of which Vietnam occupies
more than 51 percent.
The area includes land in Hanoi and 25
other provinces in the north with a population of 26 million people and
total agricultural area of nearly 1.1 million hectares.
According
to Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa of the Technical University of Milan, the
development of an integrated planning and management model of the river
system and the design of a set of regulations and policies for the
system as well as training for staff at the Institute of Water Resources
Planning were among the project's goals./.
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