Vietnam farmers struggle for fresh water as drought brings salinization

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00:00 A raging El Nino presence in the Southeast Asia region has visited damage to life and

00:05 livelihood far and wide.

00:07 While El Nino has had its dry spell cover at least 41 provinces in the Philippines, in

00:12 Vietnam a month-long heatwave has parched the land while rising sea levels have brackish

00:17 water mixed with fresh water seeping into irrigation canals and feeding crops and trees

00:22 with highly saline most moisture.

00:25 The trees are fast drying up while crops continue to shrivel and die because of no rain or fresh

00:29 water to nourish them.

00:31 This saline intrusion has had a grave effect on durian fruit trees which are bound to eventually

00:36 wither and die if the prolonged dry spell persists indefinitely and the trees have nothing

00:41 to feed on but spiked water from the sea.