Khanh Hoa: Stuck with worries before the season ... the term

According to the forecast of the South Central Central Hydrometeorological Station, the dry season of 2007 in Khanh Hoa province started early from the middle of December 2006 and will end at the end of August 2007.

In the dry months, many places are less likely to rain, where there is rain, the rainfall is not much and will be lower than the average of many years from 100-200 mm. The hot sun is likely to appear sooner and harder than many years with many prolonged heat waves .

(Photo: BaoKhanhHoa) Currently, in the large-scale reservoirs of the province, the amount of stored water is only between 25% and 65% of the designed capacity. River flows are in shortages of 20 to 50% over the same period of many years. So Khanh Hoa will have a dry season lasting up to 8 months, with the level expected to be serious.

The Provincial People's Committee decided to build a new semi-permanent dam, located in Vinh Ngoc commune because the existing dam has deteriorated, which could seriously affect agricultural production and domestic water supply, when the fierce dry season was foretold . The work to start construction was in an urgent time, so that by the end of March 2007, the new dam would be able to promptly handle the function of preventing saltwater intrusion.

In the communes of Van Tho, Van Khanh (Van Ninh district), where the sea dyke has degraded phenomenon, the invasion and saline intrusion have been taking place for a long time, affecting agricultural cultivation. With the coastal area planning unstable, it is impossible to invest in the construction of a large-scale saline prevention dyke, Khanh Hoa province has given Van Ninh district a mechanism to examine each region and each dyke to actively allocate capital. investment in construction or repair according to appropriate scale and with decentralized capital sources.

The lack of production water for Ninh Quang, Ninh Hung and Ninh Loc communes (Ninh Hoa district) is due to the inadequate system of canals to these areas. Khanh Hoa province is implementing a project to solidify the canal system here with the expected completion in the middle of the dry season in order to " cure thirst " for rice and crops. In Van Ninh district, other people expressed their frustration when the Hoa Son reservoir was started earlier this year, but then the construction was stagnant. In Cam Ranh Town, through collecting comments from voter contacts of delegations of the Provincial People's Council, people in many localities proposed to speed up the implementation of the water supply plant project. living north of Cam Ranh town; a series of projects to build reservoirs: Song Can, Ta Ruc, Ta Lua .

In the mountainous district of Khanh Son, the people in general and the Rac Lay ethnic minority people here are putting their worries ahead of the shortage of drinking water. This problem caused the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to conduct a series of checks on all the water supply projects invested by the Center for Rural Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation in this area. Of the total 6 centralized water supply systems, 51 drilled wells, 70 dug wells ., those which have not yet met the requirements are planned to overcome in the early time, in order to serve the people living in this difficult area.

According to the recommendations of the Central South Hydrometeorological Center, in order to cope with the severe drought in the short term, Khanh Hoa province needs to be proactive with measures to manage and use water resources reasonably and economically. . in each locality and immediately implement measures to prevent drought from now, especially the prevention of forest fires. Khanh Hoa has done many things, but before a heavy drought season, drought prevention is still disordered.

Tien Minh