In 2019, under the lead of the General Directorate of Water Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and with the help of the Vietnam Water Partnership, a series of workshops was organised in Vietnam to define strategic actions for advancing on IWRM. The sessions brought together stakeholders from government agencies, NGOs, development partners, civil society, and research institutions to work on solutions to increase efficiency and sustainable development of water resources. The following action was defined as part of that process and identified as a priority action to be included in an action plan.
The purpose of this action is to tackle surface water pollution in the An Kim Hai irrigation system. It aims to reach this goal by first of all assessing the level of discharges in surface water and the current state of surface water pollution, while evaluating the scale to which various activities contribute to pollution in the system. It then aims to depart from these findings to find solutions to ensure a quality standard of the water supply for agriculture, fisheries, and rural livelihoods that is sustainable and meets development demands.
