After hydrologists warned last week that huge discharges of water from
Chinese reservoirs upstream would flood the Hong (Red River) in the
north, water levels have risen sharply, damaging ships and destroying
crops.
Enterprises face a VND1 billion (nearly US$48,000) fine for illegally releasing more than 3,000 cubic metres of waste water into water sources in one day, proposed the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
