Develop long-term planning for environmental protection

In recent years, the socio-economic situation of Quang Tri province has continuously developed and achieved remarkable achievements. This has helped stabilize the local economy, contributing to improving and enhancing the lives of the people. However, along with the development process, Quang Tri province is facing many challenges and difficulties in environmental protection (EP).

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To achieve the goal of environmental protection and sustainable development, it is necessary to strengthen environmental protection solutions to balance and harmonize development activities and the natural environment. Especially in the process of industrialization and modernization, not only are environmental resources continuously exploited, but the environment itself has become a place to contain all kinds of waste, leading to serious and irreversible losses.

Therefore, it is extremely necessary and urgent to develop a long-term vision for environmental protection by 2030 with the aim of limiting resource degradation, fundamentally preventing the increase in pollution, overcoming environmental degradation, ensuring high ecological balance; meeting environmental requirements in international economic integration and limiting the negative impacts of globalization, promoting economic growth, and improving the quality of people's lives.

Currently, all development activities generate waste and put pressure on environmental degradation. In particular, the problem of environmental pollution continues to increase, especially environmental hotspots in industrial parks, industrial clusters, craft villages and industrial activities such as mineral exploitation and processing, agricultural and forestry processing, cultivation, aquaculture, exploitation of aquatic products and marine resources... have not been thoroughly resolved, which is a major challenge for environmental protection.

During agricultural production, after being used, a part of pesticides will be absorbed and accumulated in the soil environment along with other minerals, negatively affecting the micro-organisms, making the soil infertile, losing nutrients, and reducing productivity. In addition, the process of salinization and acidification of soil is concentrated in coastal areas; the process of feralitization of laterite occurs commonly in hilly areas adjacent to the plains, occurring due to the characteristics of the soil formation process, making the soil weak in structure and poor in nutrients.

Industrial production activities generate a lot of wastewater and solid waste, but they are not collected and treated properly, and if discharged directly into the soil, it will pollute the surrounding area. This is a concern because many industrial parks and industrial clusters in the province do not have wastewater collection and treatment systems that meet regulations.

On the other hand, industrial production facilities are often scattered according to raw material areas, many facilities are located in residential areas that have not been relocated, so there is a risk of environmental pollution (including soil environment) and human health.

In particular, the discharge of unsafe wastewater into the environment has greatly affected the receiving source, causing mass fish deaths in a number of rivers and lakes. In particular, Sa Lung River (Vinh Linh) is the place that receives wastewater from residential areas, livestock, aquaculture, and production and business establishments such as Tran Duong Private Enterprise, Duc Hien One Member Co., Ltd., Ben Hai Rubber Factory; Khe Che Lake (Hai Lang) is the place that receives urban wastewater, wastewater from industrial production activities (factories that generate wastewater in Dien Sanh Industrial Cluster); Dai An Lake (Dong Ha) receives part of urban wastewater; Bau Bang area, Ha Thanh canal (Gio Linh) ... have polluted water sources in the area.

To strengthen environmental protection in the coming time, it is necessary to have a plan for zoning the province's environment according to strictly protected areas, emission-limited areas and other areas. In which, strictly protected areas include rivers and lakes supplying domestic water such as Dakrong River, Xaranh Stream and Tan Do Lake, Se Pon River, Rao Quan Hydroelectric Reservoir, Lia Lake, Vinh Phuoc River and Ai Tu Lake, Tich Tuong Lake, Thach Han River and Tram Lake, Nhung River, O Lau River, Sa Lung River and La Nga Lake, Hieu River, Thac Ma River.

In addition to planning and zoning to develop protection plans, it is necessary to promote the application of technology in production activities, with priority given to high technology and advanced environmental protection models for environmental protection and sustainable development. Promote activities to raise environmental awareness to transform into action in environmental protection. Promote the application of measures to harmonize environmental protection and sustainable economic development in key industrial areas such as economic zones, industrial parks, urban development areas, and tourist areas.

In recent years and in the coming orientation, the province has determined that socio-economic development goes hand in hand with sustainable environmental protection. This is the right orientation, which will have a positive impact on the local development process.

Tan Nguyen

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