To the 20 million residents of the Mekong Delta
for so long do not have the right to have a voice
To the Friends of the Mekong
NGO THE VINH
Introduction:The Vietnam Mekong River Commission announced that it will hold a consultation meeting on April 23, 2024 in Can Tho city on the Funan Techo Canal Project. Viet Ecology Foundation would like to introduce an article by Dr. Ngo The Vinh about this controversial project. He was the one who sounded the warning bell very early on about the dangers of hydroelectric dams upstream of the Mekong River, has written many essays and is the author of two books: The Nine Dragons Drained Dry, The East Sea in Turmoil (2000) and Mekong The Occluding River (2007). He is also known as a persistent environmental activist for nearly 30 years, with a concern for protecting the ecosystem of the Mekong River and the Mekong Delta.
Figure 1: Where Does the Future Go? A man holds a plastic container over his head as he walks through a dry lake in Ben Tre province on March 19, 2024. The image of a Mekong Delta with many places where the soil is cracked, dry and salty, the rivers and canals are dry, and the entire Mekong Delta, the most fertile in the world, is being desertified and may disintegrate in the near future. [source RFA]
