The southern province of Dong Nai has spent 1.5 trillion VND (75 million
USD) over the last five years to build infrastructure facilities to
respond to climate change, said Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s
Committee Vo Van Chanh.
According to Chanh, the money was
used to carry out projects such as consolidating embankment in Dong Nai
River; building waste-water drainage and treatment system in Bien Hoa
city and Nhon Trach and Vinh Cuu districts; upgrading medical sewage
treatment system in hospitals at provincial and district levels;
building waste treatment system for medical stations.
In
addition, the province also invested to upgrade water reservoirs in Long
Thanh, Xuan Loc and Thong Nhat districts, Long Khanh town and Bien Hoa
city; sluice gate project in Long Thanh district, water inundation
prevention project in Suoi Cai spring in Long Khanh town, embankment
building in La Nga River in Dinh Quan district and protective forest
plantations in Vinh Cuu and Long Thanh districts.
In order to
promote environment protection, the province asked industrial parks to
install automatic observation systems to facilitate the provincial
Department of Natural Resources and Environment’s control of quality of
wastewater before discharging into environment.
In the
province’s forest planning and development in the 2011-2020 period, the
locality has disbursed over 300 billion VND (14.5 million USD) for
protecting and preventing forest fire, and building database of forestry
and cultivation land.-VNA