Absence of seasonal flooding washes away Mekong Delta livelihood

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Khen shows the fish caught in her husband's net in Dong Thap Province, November 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Tai

 

The enforced absence of annual flooding that Vietnam's Mekong Delta heavily depends on for agriculture and aquaculture has put the livelihoods of millions at stake.

 

For several years, the annual flooding that has nourished the delta for centuries has been late, deficient or absent, and experts have blamed it on climate change and the construction of a series of upstream dams.

 

Early this month, Thang, 48, and his wife, Khen, residents of Hong Ngu District in Dong Thap Province, took their boat and went to collect their catch from fixed-net fishing in a waterway near their home.

 

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