A disaster prevention and mitigation centre funded by the US PacificCommand was inaugurated in the central province of Quang Tri on June 10.
Construction on the centre began in January 2014 at a cost of more than 9.2 billion VND (nearly 428,000 USD).
A representative of the provincial People’s Committee said Quang Tripledges to optimise the use of this facility and hoped that the USPacific Command would continue assisting in upgrading localinfrastructure and technological equipment, ultimately helping improvethe province’s disaster risk management and climate change adaptationcapacity.
Quang Tri regularly suffers great lossesfrom severe weather conditions such as storms, floods and whirlwinds. Itis currently struggling with one of the worst droughts in history,which has devastated crops and heavily impacted livelihoods.
Over the past few years, a number of disaster mitigation measures havebeen carried out in Quang Tri, such as conducting communicationactivities to raise public awareness, updating flood scenarios,designing solutions to cope with super typhoons and regularly checkingand repairing disaster prevention facilities like dams, reservoirs anddocks.
However, these moves have not been fully effective due to limited financial resources.-VNA
Construction on the centre began in January 2014 at a cost of more than 9.2 billion VND (nearly 428,000 USD).
A representative of the provincial People’s Committee said Quang Tripledges to optimise the use of this facility and hoped that the USPacific Command would continue assisting in upgrading localinfrastructure and technological equipment, ultimately helping improvethe province’s disaster risk management and climate change adaptationcapacity.
Quang Tri regularly suffers great lossesfrom severe weather conditions such as storms, floods and whirlwinds. Itis currently struggling with one of the worst droughts in history,which has devastated crops and heavily impacted livelihoods.
Over the past few years, a number of disaster mitigation measures havebeen carried out in Quang Tri, such as conducting communicationactivities to raise public awareness, updating flood scenarios,designing solutions to cope with super typhoons and regularly checkingand repairing disaster prevention facilities like dams, reservoirs anddocks.
However, these moves have not been fully effective due to limited financial resources.-VNA
