Conclusion on Water issue
- Vietnam has a relative abundance of water resources.
However, the water sources is unequally distributed over the seasons and
regions. This therefore has been a disadvantage to meet the needs of water supply for the whole country and
led to the situation that water supply is over-much in flooding season but
being deficient in dry season as well as the deficiency in water for daily
life and production activities happens in some parts of the country.
- Almost untreated wastewater released from both domestic
and industrial activities has directly discharged to the surface sources
and waterways. This is causing the serious pollution of surface water in
many areas such as Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, Viet Tri, Bien Hoa
etc. Surface water environment is mainly polluted by organic and nutrient
substances.
- There has been lot of constraints and problems on the management of inland and sea water, including constraints on policies, legislative system, management mechanism, institutional organisation as well as human resource.