Vietnam - Improvement of Groundwater Protection II
Country / Region: Vietnam / South East Asia
Focal Point: Groundwater
Begin of project: July 2, 2014
End of project: December 31, 2017
Status of project: August 10, 2016
Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
Source: BGR
Groundwater is one of the main water resources for water supply in Vietnam. Coastal groundwater resources are endangered by salinisation and intruding seawater. In the Mekong Delta, the situation of groundwater is already regarded as dramatic.
Within the Vietnamese-German Development Cooperation, the BGR Technical Cooperation Project “Improvement of Groundwater Protection in Vietnam” aims to enhance technical and management capacities of government agencies, especially institutions in charge of water resource management on the central level, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and and its subordinate National Centre for Water Resources Planning and Investigation (NAWAPI)) and in selected provinces of the Mekong River Delta (PPCs/DONREs) and applies improved methods for groundwater management based on increased knowledge. This objective is underlined by the promotion of integrated water resource management (IWRM).
The project started in early 2015 and will finish by end of 2017. It consists of four components:
- Policy consultancy at national and provincial level (development of technical guidelines, circulars)
- Technical assistance to improve understanding about groundwater situation and management
- Awareness raising on groundwater problems and IWRM
- Capacity building in the three components above
Facing declining Water Quality and Quantity the project is backing Vietnamese environmental strategies by focusing on the integrated municipal water resource protection and sustainable urban development in accordance with the German-Vietnamese Priority Area Strategy Paper on “Environmental Policy, Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources”
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Project-No: 2013.2212.2
Project ID: 2014
Project contributions:
Partner:
„National Centre for Water Resources Planning and Investigation" (NAWAPI), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)