Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Dr. Ho Long Phi: "Flooded Ho Chi Minh city control strategy: reducing damage rather than risk reduction"

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According to Dr. Ho Long Phi, Deputy Executive Director of the Center Cityprogram to prevent flooding, the city is implementing a number of the overall project tosolve the city area to prevent flooding. These include a number of projects such asdrainage Master Plan JICA 2001, tidal control project in 2008, City Plan to 2025 space, and projects sea dike Go Cong - Vung Tau ..
These projects have been approved by the Prime Minister and development, to upgrade the drainage system, local control tide ...contribute to solving the area to prevent flooding the city and surrounding areas. .
However, according to Dr. Ho Long Phi, the current project to prevent flooding of the city is being made simultaneously but asynchronously, even mutual negation. Dr. Ho Long Phi emphasized, for the effects of climate change today, risk levels exceed the design capacity of the great works very hard to predict exactly the situation in future.Therefore, the need here that we have to do is not reduce risk as would normally do,which is to minimize damage if problems occur.
Ho Long Phi - viettodaynews.blogspot.com-environment
Dr. Ho Long Phi is a presentation at the seminar. Photo: Hieu Thuong
Please introduce you to read the full discussion paper "Strategies for integrated flood Management for the City: Requirements and urgency" of Dr. Ho Long Phi. This paper was Dr. Ho Long Phi presented in the Conference Report on the Mid-term Management Project flooded city area, to prevent flooding the city center held the morning of 07/03/2012. At the Seminar, there were Mr. Hoang Van Thang, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, the experts from the World Association of Water Resources, the project consultants and Dutch scientists, and leading specialists of Vietnam.

02 Integrated Flood and Inundation Management Strategies for HCMC Mar 2012_ HLP
By HIEU THUONG

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