POLICIES TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABE WATER RESOUCES MANAGEMENT IN VIET NAM - AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS

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The importance of water for sustaining country’s growth while improving public health and the environment cannot be understated. While Viet Nam uses only about 10% of the volume of available water on a national basis, regional and especially seasonal shortages are major limiting factors for industrial and agricultural development. Vulnerable ecosystems such as the Mekong River Delta and Red River Delta are seeing lower flows, causing shortages of water supply and saline water intrusion, disrupting fisheries and impacting the quality of irrigation supplies. The delicate balance of upland ecosystems and crops is being affected to a greater extent by more severe weather patterns and flooding. These factors are clearly unfavorable for rural development and poverty reduction. The Government of Viet Nam (GoV) is committed to address these complex water sector issues. A series of water resources management related legal policies and documents have been promulgated and implemented in the past decade. This paper presents an overview of legal frameworks and policies promulgated and implemented by GoV to promote sustainable water resources management in Viet Nam. An in-depth analysis of the water resources management related legal framework and policies was conducted to get an insight into the coherence of the policies and impacts brought by the implementation of the promulgated policies.