TPO - Since the beginning of February, the western provinces have been struggling to cope with drought, saltwater intrusion, subsidence, and serious landslides during the dry season - a dry season that is forecast to be more severe than the average of many years, and shows no signs of ending soon.
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Due to the drought, water evaporation occurs quickly, along with pumping water for production, causing most of the canals and streams in the freshwater area of Ca Mau to dry up. |
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Cutting and pruning trees along rivers, canals and ditches reduces the load on traffic works. |
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The canal bottom is deep, the difference in height between the road surface and the current water level is very large, causing a loss of counter pressure and subsidence. People have put up ropes, barriers, and warning signs to limit traffic. |
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Most of the canals in the freshwater area of Tran Van Thoi district, Ca Mau have completely dried up, and subsidence and landslides are continuing to occur with increasing scale and frequency. |
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For roads that have collapsed or sunk but are still passable by motorbike, people use concrete pieces to temporarily move around. |
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The drought not only caused roads to collapse, but also caused many rivers and canals in the western part of Ca Mau to dry up, leaving boats stranded on the shore. |
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| People transport rice by motorbike to rice collection points from traders. |
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In many other localities in the West, such as Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Kien Giang... there is also a serious shortage of fresh water to supply the intra-field canal system serving farmers' production. |
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The rice fields have no more water, left to the weather. |
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The rice is still green but the fields are cracked, the life of the crops in the rice fields of coastal provinces is only a matter of days. |
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The canal system in Soc Trang no longer has water for people's boats and canoes to travel. |
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Large canals, which carry water from the Mekong River system into the fields, are "gasping for breath", bridges and culverts have exposed foundations. |
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Crops without water also wither, the soil turns white. |
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Cracked rice fields due to lack of water are a familiar image of this year's dry season in the West - a dry season in which saltwater intrusion is forecast to be higher than the average of many years. |
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A rice field without fresh water is beyond saving. |
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Lemongrass fields of people in Tan Phu Dong district (Tien Giang) were converted from rice fields to adapt to drought and saltwater intrusion, but this year's dry season has a serious lack of irrigation water, so they are also in a state of withering. |
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People in many areas have had to transport river water from less saline areas further upstream, or use brackish water mixed with fresh water bought from barges to save money, waiting for rain to "quench their thirst". |
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