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16/12/2020 16:19 GMT+7
Some 1.1 million local residents left the Mekong Delta for other parts of the country, chiefly HCMC and other southeastern provinces, between 2009 and 2019,
according to a report jointly released by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management.
Due to the drought and saltwater intrusion, residents in the Mekong Delta have to buy untreated river water for their daily needs. Climate change is one of the reasons that local residents are leaving the Mekong Delta – PHOTO: TRUNG CHANH
Natural disasters cause people to flee Mekong Delta
By Cuu Long December 15, 2020 | 11:52 am GMT+7
A farmer stands in a paddy field hit by drought in the Mekong Delta s province of Ben Tre, April 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Nam.
The fear of natural disasters has caused more than 1.3 million people living in the Mekong Delta to migrate to HCMC and elsewhere.
The figure was published on Monday in the first annual Mekong Delta Economic Report coordinated by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and managed by Fulbright University Vietnam.
The number is alarming considering the number of emigrants in the past decade was larger than the population of some provinces in the delta.