How Did Tropical Vietnam Run Out Of Clean Water? | Insight | Full Episode

Thank you for reporting on the reality of Vietnam in an area with too much pollution. I hope the Vietnamese government has many policies to deal with so that people here live a healthy and safe life.

Thank you CNA Insider for this valuable information. Throughout the video, learning on how Vietnam people have no clean water, specially clean drinking water, also for farming it's alarming. At the end of video learning about the Vietnamese government developing water saving and treatment technologies, to clean the water, it's a relief. We hope the government continues with their water treatment technologies to provide clean water to the Beautiful People of Vietnam.

That man with eels need to learn how to implement some filters. 4000 litre is massive amount, not just some household like he claim. the slime from the eels can be filtered out and the water is safe as long the nitrate balanced.

The problem is not that they are using groundwater, the problem is that they are not reusing it by having a plant clean it. You can use and reuse the same water millions of times, but they don't. They need to invest in technology that can clean the water.

Yesterday, i went to a dam on highlands and people were catching shellfishs there, and after they got out of the water, they immediately threw the plastic water bottle down the water that basically feeds them and their family. What a disgrace 😤

Thank u for the informative video. I hope the situation changes and measures will be taken by governments in our Earth to improve and assure basic human rights for all, like water quality.

I have been living in Ho Chi Minh city for almost 20 years. My main concern of living inviroment are clean water and air polution. After watching this video i can see how big of the clean water picture is as long as how important to solve the problem. It might takes a decades to change things. Hopefully it will not too late.

this is a very complex issue that involves geopolitics, government regulation, corporations' waste, educating people on water usage, littering, and farming practices.

very thorough video. Thank you CNA

Spent a month in Vietnam. I literally watched people just throwing their trash in the river with no thought or remorse. This is a problem of their own doing.

2:14: 🌊 Water scarcity in Vietnam is a pressing issue that threatens the country's economy and public health. 9:18: 💧 Vietnam's water supply is facing multiple challenges including high levels of arsenic, dam construction upstream, overexploitation of groundwater, land subsidence, and saltwater intrusion. 21:14: ⚠ Vietnam faces water scarcity and poor management, impacting agriculture and urban areas. 30:43: 💧 Vietnam faces water challenges including flooding, land subsidence, and water shortage. 38:49: 💧 Vietnam faces challenges in achieving its water plan goals due to financial, environmental, and systemic hurdles. Recap by Tamm

I notice that a lot of clothing in the West is mostly made in Vietnam. I've seen documentaries on how textile factories in India, Bangladesh, etc. have polluted local waterways. I fear the same is happening in Vietnam. The government needs to have a close eye on manufacturing and textile plants.

same scenario for Philippines and Indonesia for not regulating ground water extraction and garbage pollution

Vietnam has more water than most countries in the world, but they do not invest in recycled water, filtered industrial waste, storage of fresh water during raining season for later use. Big problem right now is most rivers are polluted. Trash are dumped into rivers. Depending on Mekong rivers won't solve Vietnam water problems. 8:14

Good luck to the Vietnamese people in Vietnam. Keep praying that your government will be educated enough and caring enough to really trying to easy some of your problems and raise the standard of living for the Majority of all Vietnamese not only for the corrupted ruling elite.

Not just Vietnam, every country in South east asia has this problem (except Singapore). The fact is that, ASEAN people tends to look down on their own country while praising others. They never want to care their own country, they think just by paying taxes is enough.... and make a comment "our government is so corrupt, thats why our river is so dirty". Stop looking abroad, every country in ASEAN is a tourist destination for a reason. Take care of your own country, pick up the trash that laying around on the street.

Very informative. The people that were interviewed and the water conservationists seem proactive and are headed in the right path. Like one gentleman said , it's going to take time to teach and change people's habits that they have been accustomed to for thousands of years.

This is a great insight into the realities of the challenges facing my adopted country. I spent some time when living in Vung Tau trying to scold Ho Chi Minh visitors from throwing finished drink containers off the back of their motorbikes. While its easy to ask what the government is doing, please ask what you can do. Take your rubbish home, don't discard it in the street. If everyone does it then your rubbish is just your problem and everyone else's rubbish is not your problem too.

On another water related note, I took a two night cruise in Ha Long Bay recently. I read some reviews that mentioned garbage floating in the water but it was truly shocking to see in person. I hope the government implements some type of cleanup effort like the ocean cleanup boat to collect all the trash. It seemed like a mix of plastic and foam? It's one of the most beautiful places in the world and it's a shame to see trash in the bay.

"Water scarcity is leaving the people with sinking feeling"-What a sentence! It has nicely depicted the ugly sufferings.