Electricity supply was resumed on Cô Tô island in northern QuảngNinh Province on Friday after the power line was struck by lightning earlier this month.

Connecting household solar panels to the grid is seen as a positive way to make Đà Nẵng a ‘green’ city by 2025. Bùi Hoài Nam reports.

Hà Nội has been entering the peak of summer, causing an increased demand for water. But at present, thousands of citizens in apartment buildings are facing water shortages, lasting for days at a time.

People in Hà Nội are suffering the twin pains of hot weather along with water shortages in many areas.

Every year around this time, people in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận have the same worry: water.

Some 11 reservoirs and several seasonal dams in the Southern Central province of Ninh Thuận have dried out, leaving 1,700 households without clean water.

Some 215,000 people in the southern province of An Giang are staring at water shortage this summer because of saltwater intrusion and drought, the province’s agricultural official said.

Agriculture deputy minister Hoàng Văn Thắng yesterday flew over to Ninh Thuận Province following reports of sheep dying off in masse from drought as the dry season kicked in.

As hot weather peaks this month in southern Việt Nam, authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong Delta) region are stepping up efforts to cope with forest fires and salinisation as a response to climate change. 

 Two wells of fresh, natural groundwater have been found in Bạch Long Vỹ Island of Hải Phòng City, reported online newsaper Vietnamplus.vn. The freshwater wells, which were discovered by the Northern Water Resources Planning and Investigation League, have a total capacity of 75cu.m of water per day.