The prolonged water disputes between hydropower plants and local authorities in the central region and Central Highlands recently show that big problems exist in the water natural resource management.
While the number of people using water has been increasingly rapidly, the water resources tend to get exhausted, disputes will occur, in Vietnam and other countries in the world as well. This is a necessity. Therefore, Dr. Doan The Loi, Head of the Institute for Economics and Water Resources Management, said that Vietnam needs to think of the possible scenarios to settle the problems.
Since water is a kind of valuable natural resource, it must be used in the way which can harmonize the benefits of involved subjects. Hydropower plant developers want to use the water to make electricity, but their use must not badly affect the agriculture production and daily household use.
A lot of hydropower plants have been built on the upper course of rivers to generate electricity to ease the thirst for electricity from industries and households. However, the plants, which need huge volumes of water to run their turbines, have caused a drought to the residents in the lower course of the rivers.
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