VietNamNet Bridge – Over-exploitation of rivers has caused a great deal of damage. Dr. Dao Trong Tu, director of the Centre for Sustainable Water Resources and Climate Change, tells Ha Noi Moi (New Ha Noi) newspaper.

VietNamNet Bridge - Illegal sand exploitation is occurring on rivers throughout the country, according to Dr. Vu Ngoc Long, head of the Southern Ecology Institute, and the Southern Chief Representative of the Vietnam River Network.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Environment and other government agencies to reassess the environmental impact of a suspended urban project that involves filling up a stretch of the Dong Nai River

VietNamNet Bridge - River dredging projects in the country are suspected of causing riverbank erosion and the disappearance of villages. 

The Dong Nai provincial authorities on May 7 convened an urgent meeting to clarify information provided by a local newspaper that the Dong Nai River is being filled with dioxin-contaminated soil and rocks taken from an area near Bien Hoa Airport.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The quality of water supply resources for HCM City has declined due to pollution in the Dong Nai River, experts have warned.

VietNamNet Bridge - Environmentalists and the Dong Nai provincial authorities are in dispute about a project to build a new urban area on part of Dong Nai River.

VietNamNet Bridge - The local authorities’ approval of a project to fill up a section of the Dong Nai River to build a new urban area would cause serious consequences, scientists have warned.

Dong Nai and Binh Duong provincial authorities have been unable to control sand overexploitation on the Dong Nai River.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Only 400,000 out of 2.5 million cubic meters of wastewater is treated before being discharged into the Dong Nai River every day,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Dong Nai river system Environment Protection Committee still cannot reach agreement about its operation, while the river is becoming more seriously polluted.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Efforts are on to improve the quality of the Dong Nai River and safeguard the health of 20 million people living along it, but huge investments in wastewater treatment

 VietNamNet Bridge – In order to improve the water quality of the Dong Nai River, it is necessary to reduce the volume of polluted waste water in the canal network.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the construction of 51 key waste water treatment plants in Dong Nai river basin with the aim of reducing pollution in local waterways.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Long-term planning is needed to cope with worsening pollution in the Sai Gon and Dong Nai rivers, experts have warned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to re-consider the development plans of hydro-power projects No 6 and 6A and others along the Dong Nai River.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A collection of aquatic creatures of the Dong Nai River is on display at the Dong Nai Museum. This is an original collection of the endemic aquatic creatures which have been collected over the last seven years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two proposed hydro-power plants on the Dong Nai River would have such a serious environmental impact that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment asked the Prime Minister to review the plans.

VietNamNet Bridge – The dissolved oxygen (DO) content in the Saigon River water is very low while the contents of ammonia, manganese, microorganism and suspended solid are getting higher, indicating that the river is being seriously polluted.

VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal sand exploitation by local residents and authorities along the Dong Nai River has increased rather than diminished in the last decade, despite efforts to ban it.