Lao Cai proactively maintains water sources, ensuring dam safety until 2045

Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee on June 15th informed that the locality has just issued Plan No. 286 to implement the Provincial Party Committee's Action Program on ensuring water security and dam and reservoir safety in the period up to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

The plan aims to concretize the goals and tasks into specific projects and tasks of departments, branches, and localities; at the same time, proactively provide water sources to serve people's livelihoods, socio-economic development, and ensure national defense, security, and safety in the downstream areas of dams and reservoirs in the area.

According to the plan, the tasks are implemented according to the "6 clear" principle, including clear people, clear tasks, clear time, clear responsibilities, clear products and clear authority.

The implementation must be linked to the Lao Cai Provincial Plan for the period 2021 - 2030, prioritizing resources for key and urgent irrigation works and reservoirs.

By 2030, the province strives to maintain 100% of the rural population using hygienic water sources; 50% of the population has access to clean water that meets standards.

Along with that, 100% of water reservoirs with a capacity of 50,000m3 or more will be repaired and upgraded, ensuring safe operation.

Lao Cai also sets a target to increase the proactive irrigation rate for the Winter-Spring rice crop area to 98%, the Mua crop to 97%; the irrigation water supply rate for dry crops to over 60%.

All water exploitation works that are mandatory will be automatically and online monitored and supervised; 50% of protected water sources will be marked with corridor markers according to regulations.

With a vision to 2045, the province aims to build a synchronous and modern irrigation system, clean water supply and disaster prevention; ensuring proactive water sources in all extreme weather conditions.

The goal is that 100% of people in both urban and rural areas will use clean water that meets national standards, and at the same time gradually digitize and automate the management of reservoirs, irrigation and natural disaster warning using smart technology.

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