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Reporter's Notebook: WWNO In Saigon ~Eve Troeh & Jesse Hardman ~We’re here in Vietnam thanks to the Solutions Journalism Network
Story Fund, to look at how officials, experts and local people are
planning and adapting for future flooding and water management. For
our first week we’re focused on Ho Chi Minh City. Dr. Phi directs an
innovative interdisciplinary center for Water and Climate Change here.
He talked about the need to consider what he calls social hydrology
first. The finest technical plans, and even the money to finance them,
he says, are wasted if those plans don’t fit with the lives of the
people in the city. And in a city like Ho Chi Minh, space is at a
premium. Build a tall, sturdy floodwall, he says, and residents will
move into the area surrounding it, even if you tell them that, over
time, that area is more prone to flooding if the river overtops the
wall.
