Asia's Sinking Cities: Ho Chi Minh City | Insight | Vietnam
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- Climate change has threatened to erase major cities in Vietnam, including its biggest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City. A historic downpour which sank many parts of the city late last year was seen as a mere tip of the iceberg. It's predicted that by 2050, the city will go underwater if no concrete measures are taken to prevent the phenomenon of rising sea levels, land subsidence, weak soil foundation due to groundwater extraction, rapid developments and population growth. What has been done to respond to the gradual sinking of the city? Can it survive a looming threat to its existence?
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Fortunately Singapore gets its water from neighboring country. Unlike in Jakarta or Vietnam which practice subsidence, pumping underground water which lead to raising seawater levels.
As an expat that has lived in Saigon nearly 30 years I think the real issue is that many new areas of the city have been built on what were marsh lands and swamp land. As such they flood very easily.
Well run tell nasa not to worry. You solved climate change
Agreed. Too many expansion too fast. Also climate change is the culprit. The ice in the Artic melt due to global warming more and more every year causing the rise in sea-level.
@@shawnstangeland3011 He is absolutely right though. As soon as i read his comment i knew he lived in Saigon for a long time and you’re not. During the French colonial era and Vietnam war, Saigon always developed toward the North and North-West because the land there is higher. The southern land was swarm and marsh lands serves mainly as a region where the city can drain its water. The current government decided to expand toward the south because swamp land is cheaper and closer to the heart of the city. Very poor choice. Saigon also used to have extensive network of canals that both occurs naturally and built by the French to drain the water. But after the communist took over, the filled up most of it so that they can sell the newly created land. As a consequences, the city lost it ability to drain water fast during the monsoon months.
@@trananh4415,
Very true principle and logical.
Thanks.
@@trananh4415 do you have source on that? Link?
Thats why I never buy motorcycles, Im saving for a boat instead.
Jet Ski would be fine.
And an helicopter as well 😁
Can't put anything inside a jetski tho
Did multiple motorcycle tours in Vietnam. One characteristic of it's people that I admire greatly is their ability to stare down huge, enormous problems and not flinch. They got this.
Yea i never been but true. Vietnamese are friggen risilient af man. I mean,my mums a soldier n tough af,been through alotta shlt too. Me? Im Australian n no where near as tough as her. The shlt she been through i would never survive. Shlt,im too scared too even go Vietnam n im Vietnamese. Lol. Australian born n never left n never will.
@@philipsmi-lenguyen8155 if you know vietnamese history you know vietnamese is one of the most resilient. Think about 2000 years of constant war and harassment and conquest, assimilation from China, Siam, Mongols and Champa and Vietnam still prevail. Also not sure if you heard of the Korean general who defeated Mongol twice in the 1200s was a vietnamese prince. If you think about it, vietnamese actually defeated the Mongolian 5 times lol.
@Vigilantay19 Ly Long Tuong or known as Lee Yong-sang is the royal Prince of the Ly Empire of Dai Viet. Do you know the main architect of China's forbidden city was also a Vietnamese named Nguyen An or Ruan An?
@@damiann4734 Ruan An is not the main architect, he helped but far from the main guy. The Chinese are extremely good at math we also need their calendar to start a new crop circle each year.
@@bahamut149 Nguyen An was from the 15th century, Vietnam has already adopted China's education system for 1000 years. I am confident there were vietnamese mathematicians at that period. Nguyen An specialised in hydraulics, that field requires a lot of Math. Also the lac viet rice culture developed many centuries before Han chinese ruled and at that same period bronze drums with lunar calendar. This means that the lac people derived lunisolar from India or south East.
The same is being said about Jakarta,Indonesia. Officials are planning to relocate their capital.
Good, let them sink together with that stupid governor
@@jjllama2305 LOLS..brightens up my day.
That stupid government wants to relocate the capital to another place, how pathetic they want to change the capital city because they don't know how to solve the problem and that's the easy solution to solve the problem. LMAO
It may not be the 100% same, in a communist country, like Vietnam because of the single power and corruption problems of officials also result in infrastructure development not going well because a lot of money is corrupted for themselves and their cronies.
@@Aria-jo1xl THEY CAN'T SOLVE THE PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF COMMUNIST CORRUPTION
Love how CNA gave detailed interview into locals' insight, and also used them as presenter. Much better than western style journalism, who often use cluseless foreign presenter talking over locals, acting like know it all. You go Singapore.
u can just say Vice.
@@hogatiwash7750 This kind of western soft-power style goes way back tho. Watch any of their past coverage for Vietnam War, MidEast, Balkan... to contemporary topics in Africa, SEA, Latin, China... Local people and scenery only function as a background. Their cultural context, narratives are poorly translated if not entirely ignored, while a foreign reporter get to tell their story - pre-scripted with agenda. Vice is just the modern millennial liberal version, but of same old poltical mechanism. I'm just glad Asian countries now start to have our own voice, and good English media presentation. It's not a coincidence only non-Anglo non-Nato countries media recently get tags like "Mediacorp is a Singaporean public broadcast service".
@@Trgn l m a Vietnamese who was born and grew up in HoChiMinh city called Saigon, what they presented in the Video is spot on.
This is true. Many Western Journalists (this includes AJ+) have their narrative first and then look for people who agree with it or local people they can (ab)use to repeat that narrative.
Yes every south east asian cities are sinking besides singapore
Having been in Saigon multiple times, I can only hope that the reality the Vietnamese face can be resolved. This is an amazingly vibrant city filled with many hard working and enterprising people. That said, the challenges outlined in this video are real and extensive. Saigon has a special place in my heart (as does the entire Mekong Delta) but the threat faced here is very real.
Comme disait l'autre, 2 jarres pour chaque habitant et on en parle plus.
As a vietnamese i so glad that they make a documentary about this problem
It's a common practice that people dumped their trash into rivers. It's a big problem when it rains when rivers floor filled with trash.
EXACTLY RIGHT. UNDEREDUCATED .
it's a problem, I once live in a neiboughood where a lady just dump her trash to the river bc she don't want to spend some pennies on the HOA. but I'm glad that people are more aware now.
@A Rodriguez said the guys who its own country it flooded with Cartel organizations
@A Rodriguez Bangkok of Thailand, Jakarta of Indonesia are not communist but still fact the same sinking problem.
But they are more effective because of less corruption.
Do not worry my Vietnamese friends, you are not alone. We Indonesian are also facing the same situation ! We have pretty much given up on saving our present capital and have decided to move instead. Maybe you should consider doing the same :D
Do you mean ibu kota baru haha.
Well lets see
The whole southern Vietnam - Mekong Delta is going to sink anyway so there is no place to move.
@Chí Thiện Nguyễn no one said thats your capital you fool. Take some english lessons before you reply next time you pathetic halfwit.
@Chí Thiện Nguyễn u should be more polite, u are making bad image for Vietnamese😑lịch sự đi comment ngta thân thiện thôi mà nói ngta moron hả
@Chí Thiện Nguyễn đọc lại đi bởi vì b chửi ngta moron trc. Thì tâm lí ngta cũng sẽ nói chuyện vs bạn như vậy. Comment main ngta chỉ nói VN có thể consider moving chứ ko có câu nào nói xấu VN sao b đi chửi ngta
The government last month just announced their collaboration with the Dutch government to solve this issue actually. I hope the city will survive!
Hard to say... There are more than two or three reasons and most of them depend on people's understandings :"(
I will believe the vietnamese Communist when I see the project is done. Lol
@ well, that's sadly true tho. But what is also true is that the people we are talking about here are all humans on Earth. I don't think its possible just to change all of them at once. So instead of only focus on changing people's minds, what we better do now is to adapt! For that, Dutch people can help. I have been there, seeing the way that they deal with living below the sea level is really jaw-dropping. I just hope that with this collaboration with the Dutch, the gov will really push the project forward.
@@timngot4180 same here, but man, what else can we do? When there was nothing done, people complained. Now there is an initiative, people still complain. Let's put it on the bright side. I really believe that this time with this collaboration, things can be changed!
@@moeomeohuyenmeo1883 cái metro đó bắt đầu xây từ lúc tớ bắt đầu học đại học, giờ ra trường đi làm, bạn bè có hai mống con rồi nó vẫn chưa chạy. Nghĩ mà thấy tăng xông rồi. Công nhận. Nhưng mà cậu ơi, tớ tin là nếu dc cp Hà Lan giúp thì nó sẽ khác hơn, thay vì hợp tác với Trung Quốc. Thôi thì mình lạc quan chút xíu ha.
Very insightful. Thank you for making this video. It really helps me to understand more about my country's current issues.
Climate change is a matter of interest right now, this is not just a matter of Vietnam or Southeast Asia. Infrastructure needs to be improved by investors and the government if we want to overcome this consequence.
But it always seems that Global South countries are affected the most by climate change. Global North countries are wealthy and care very little about the issue. So global south countries need to unite together. Solve these issues themselves and then help each other. Serve as example 🙂
One of my favorite documentaries😍
Went to ho chi mihn and Ha long bay back in October 2019... love the people, food and scenery.. hope they can fix this problem they have... love Vietnam 🇻🇳 hope I could visit again.
Dont you know that vn is known for it food and war.
Ho Chi Minh sucks.
@@panterafanloco1600
Ho Chi Minh was awesome!!!
@@panterafanloco1600 city is great, hcm is a dirt bag
@@muslimsocialist9310 shut up, 💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛
why they show so little footage of the flooding itself, just type in "flood in Vietnam meme" and they'll be tons of bus submarine roaming on the street .
In these hard times, there are lots of heart warming action from our people. The one that has left a deep impression inside me till this day was about a few years ago, our family was going to attend a wedding, on our way there, the road was flooded heavily, water level was higher than knee so our engine completely broke down, we had to walk for 4 km until we found a mechanical shop. Though it was crowded, the mechanics there didn't charge anyone, literally free. We were the last to leave, at 12 midnight, they even made a bowl porridge for me. I actually cried when they gave me the porridge. I was so touched.
Note: Sorry for my terrible English, I'm a Vietnamese
@Alexy Gaming ; You government should look into the Japanese flooding model; whereby all flood water is stored underground dams,
Thanks for the opportunity, this is just one of many big environmental problems that the city has to due with. I hope vietnamese leaders will be inspired to take action on tackling those problems rapidly.
Many Asian cities are also sinking. These include Bangkok, Jakarta, Mumbai and Ho Chi Minh
Yes but the situation in Jakarta and Saigon is worse than Bangkok. Mumbai's situation is also not good. Then you have Shanghai.
インドはアジアの肛門です over population is one big contributor to flooding...
What about Manila?
@truong trinh vu Not true. Bangkok is in a better position than Ho Chi Minh for several reasons: 1) no more (or very little) ground water extraction. 2) not exposed to the open ocean; very shallow bay. 3) doesn't experience typhoons or cyclones (unlike Saigon) 4) better infrastructure and more forward planning.
Jakarta's situation is however by far the worst.
@@therock8224 bangkok is not only sinked but also populated, smog city
It' a worldwide problem. If Holland or New Orleans can deal with the rising sea level, Saigon can find ways too.
City is sinking to the sea level. The sea has not risen more then a few cm.
CNA channel, you're awesome. Thank you for bringing great programs to the world to see. Love it.
Excellent documentary.
Saigon is literally on marshland, there is very poor drainage, and it has just spread at a breakneck rate,without a whole lot of engineering. DaNang also has problems, unfettered growth,and poor planning. The largest problems are not climate induced, they are growth for the sake of growth.
Cities live weak people they are parasitical and need to spread out and become independent when they stack upon each other it is too many
Yeah. But they couldn't resist pounding it into every other conversation. I'll bet you we have a better chance of sea levels actually falling. Something alters the salinity in the oceans and you'll see 65' of snow in NYC.
Great video. Solid journalism. It is a joy to watch. 👍🏻 🙋🏻♂️🇩🇰
I'm from England and rode from North to South Vietnam on a moped.
1500 miles
It was awesome
When I arrived at home chi min city I was dwarfed by its size.
Its such a huge city
Anyone who has lived in Vietnam knows that when disaster strikes, the government is largely absent in recovery efforts and doesn't reinvest much into affected areas. Local people rely on each other for support or end up destitute. How many of the people interviewed said they'd taken matters into their own hands, rather than wait for the government to do something proactive to manage the problem? It's rhetorical--all of them.
By 2050, it's clear large parts of HCMC will be underwater, while other parts remain livable. Those with the means will live in the less-affected areas, while those without the means will live in the floodwaters and waste, like they do now. "We will have to live with the floods...." It will be apocalyptic. Sadly, this is only one of many serious issues affecting the lives of Saigonese. I can't imagine what the air quality will be like there in 2050 either without drastic control measures on pollution and serious reforms on transportation.
The government won't do much because when it comes to money they don't want to spend it on something that won't give returns. The general corruption within government agencies is very keenly seen by Vietnamese citizens to the point that one department of the government proposes solutions while other departments take money allocated for said solutions frustrating the originating department not being able to do anything. Looking back to when Formosa company destroyed central Vietnam's food supply of fish, the government shut down all dissent and protest. Threw anyone in jail that raised too much awareness, it's a fear of the people. But it's something that is ingrained in Vietnamese people to endure and sacrifice, but losing your home to flood and rising seas is something that is unbearable to many.
Thank you for making this documentary, people should start raising the awareness about this matter before it becomes too late
It's been a long time since this video was published. I'm pursuing my environmental career with the hope that one day I can influence other young people to care for, protect, and improve our environment. Ho Chi Minh City is still growing rapidly without considering the cost of environmental and human health. It's time for the next generation to rise and build a better place for Vietnamese people.
I am a Vietnamese-American... but to be honest Vietnam is facing flooded and water sinking every years because this country border is mostly facing the sea. To change the odd I think we need the massive scale of city sewer delevopment.
wow! you're the smart one with a solution... no one would have come up with that solution... you already solved all the sinking problems in Vietnam... you need to patent your ideas of how to solve the flood, sinking problems in Vietnam..
Totally agreed.
There got to be the balancing solution.
Jakata, Ho Chi Minh, Bangkok have same issue but Bangkok has PM2.5 problem as well, not sure other cities have that
Interesting how Tokyo has all that underground infrastructure for flooding.
Yup, just making excuses on why they didn’t invest in infrastructure to combat this.
@@phatnum17 We have been invested a lot to stop flooding in HCMCity , but things get all wrong due to serious corruption issue in my country. More than anyone else, I wish the city would be free from floods.
@@hungphatthanh3304 I think you are right there are big issues now with the new subway too i hear, wrong specification concretes used and things like that.
@@Ra-mx4bo China has already overtaken the US in terms of GDP PPP, which is the one that matters, and in terms of nominal GDP will overtake the US by 2038
@@Ra-mx4bo lol China is a saint compared to the US. How many military bases does China have around the world? How many does the US?
Really informative! Especially for a HCM citizen like me. Thank you!
Every new development or project is an opportunity for the officials to embezzle money and line their pockets. With their ill-gotten gains they can afford to: buy cars, houses, foreign citizenship, retire abroad, send their children to international schools, and send their children abroad for university.
There’s a saying in Vietnam when it comes to officials: “The father steals, the child studies abroad, the grandchild becomes a Western citizen.”
What never heard of that saying lol
CNA already made a video of Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City Sinking Cities, Still waiting for Singapore version of this. Not found it yet. SMH
There is flood in Singapore too?
No...it will not...with loaded money n technology they likely going dutch..u know what i mean..."dutch"..hence the land there r high enough to survive climate change n rising sea...only small portion of their land will submerge
CNA is from singapore so they would not post something negative about singapore. Bias
@@Kylelongwest Yes, even Singapore with it's underground water tunnel still have to experienced annual flooding.
@Art Man Yes... Puppet states of the West...
The funny thing , is these cities government is they are more concern in in their tourism while the important things must be done , governmment action 's is less , just like other southeast asian country.
Every officials and their dogs care more about their cut and pockets than the people.
So they can put more money inTheir corrupted pockets.
@@damiann4734 very very true
they make money now when they die the problem is left for the next generation to sort out.
Wow! Seeing this video right after I saw a video on Singapore, what a big contrast!!
Because CNA is a Singapore channel.. that is why.
A city built on a delta, with massive infrastructure and urbanization. Has no choice but to sink. Blaming this totally on Climate Change is irresponsible. There is no place for water retention in the area. Either dredge the river, or create retention pond areas outside the city.
Rapid progress of mega cities in Asia coupled with population explosion and melting of icebergs as climate changes contributed to the sinking of their elevation. Manila and Jakarta. Yes and even Bulacan town Obando north of Manila has already been in trouble too.
aw common, nobody goes to mega cities anymore, it's too crowded.
It s call Monsoon, and it s happening for thousand years before the city was even built, people do forget that Asian Modern cities are some few decade old, and were built regardless of of the land structure!
Great video.
Just don't see any officials or many residents really care about the issue. Hope we can still survive the next rainy season.
Would y'all mind putting subtitles on everyone? Mr. Goichot's speech was difficult to understand sometimes.
According to Vox, the reason for the sinking of Jakarta is because of Dutch colonization and the dirty canals in Batavia in 1600. So the Vietnamese can blame the French. This will solve everything.
Yeah, I've been kinda looking for a funny comment dealing with this whole issue. Everybody loves to blame something else for their problems. What's missing is the obvious. Building massive cement and steel structures on mud is kind of a no-brainer.
Y'all must remember "Saigon" or Ho Chi minh City has always been built on a wet Marshy Delta...Worst Place on 🌍 Earth to build a Mega Metropolitan 🌆🏙️🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆 live with it
That place was almost like a swamp .
get fkd. best place on earth.
As cities pump out their subterranean water, their land sinks - pretty much cannot be avoided if water is pumped out. Much better to use desalinization, although I doubt the EU will permit that.
Cities in Southeast Asia be like:
We're all will SINK together
Once we know
That we are
We're all stars
And we see that
The hell? Is that suppose to be funny?
Developers need to be required to invest in green space & infrastructure before they can be approved to build. They must also submit environmental impact assessments & provide mitigation efforts to reduce these impacts to the community & the environment as a whole. Finally the govt must make an effort to phase out all underground water pumping to reduce ground sinkage. These are all cost-effective & pragmatic strategies that can be implemented immediately.
developers are greedy, in the Philippines too is somewhat in the same situation.
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is the business and financial hub of Vietnam, with a prominent history going back hundreds of years. ... Today, Ho Chi Minh City is a popular tourist destination due to its fascinating culture, classic French architecture, and sleek skyscrapers as well as ornate temples and pagodas.
It’s sad to hear about this sinking issue in HCMC, my homeland. I was hoping one day to live there 6 months and return back to Australia 🇦🇺, but it seems there are a lot of issues that I wasn’t aware of. Firstly, the water there is not as clean as I thought. I can’t believe some people don’t have clean filtered water to cook, drink and clean! The government should be addressing this ASAP! With so many tourists coming into Vietnam and helping the economy, this should be a priority in 2023. I’m hearing all these experts say that the city will sink and more floods are expected, but I don’t really hear any real solutions or answers to this concerning climate issue. It sounds like this dyke system is going to cost 30 years and billions of dollars for the Vietnamese government & it seems to be only helping one part off the city as that French man advised. The issues with the Vietnamese is that if someone has money, they are more powerful than the government. That can build whatever they want. Vietnam needs more standards and compliance, that the government needs to set and have its citizens obey if it wants Vietnam to grow and not sink. I mean building apartments and building after building is only going to destroy the environment and not the best thing for Vietnam. Vietnam has been through alot already, war etc. it needs to be more smarter now and find ways to keep the country prosperous.
I went to District 8 last week. The road on the side of the canal was litterally next to the canal, with the water level being around waist height when you are standing on the road. No way the area would be able to hold back the water during high tides and heavy rain.
Big major cities in Southeast are suffering this flooding problem.
Jakarta, Manila, Saigon.
They are sinking.
It's mother nature.
Nope..NOT MANILA...manila is not sinking LOL
FAKE NEWS..not MANILA, I'm a Filipino and I can tell u tht Lol
human effects on nature was totally bad
@@KARL-el3hr Igno ram us. Go do some research........
@@KARL-el3hr The only think fake is yourp eab rain........LOL
The Saigon will not change and will get worse , if the corrupt government is remain in place
As if South Vietnam's government was any less corrupted
Developers concentrate on the building & pocket the profit without proper contribution to the building new infrastructure or upgrading the existing infrastructure - Who's fault is it ?
You want to level the city? Is that your solution?
GOVERNMENT'S FAULT.
It is the fault of the communists.
Corrupt allowed past any things !
Hm.. So the communist make rhe sea lvl rise?
Stop extracting Water from the ground!
Wow, no mention about corruption and funding? Half a truth is often a great lie. FYI: Saigon contributes more than 25% budget for the whole country, but the city only gets to keep 18%. In short, the city doesn't have the money. If there is any money for the infrastructure, only half of that goes into actual projects. The other half goes to buying Cyprus citizenship. Majority of Vietnamese people know this, but when you ask them on the camera, they are too afraid to mention it.
Waiting for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia episode.
Kuala Lumpur Is Not Affected
@@Zack-et9wj It's cna's world wonder.
@@Zack-et9wj True, Kuala Lumpur is not a coastal city and is also hilly. Nearby Port Klang may however be subject to subsidence though.
A major issue is that the city doesn't have enough money to reinvest itself in term of infrastructure. You may ask why Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) - the largest city / financial center / economic powerhouse in Vietnam - has no money? Let me tell you, the income from every provinces/cities in Vietnam will be contributed to the government's treasury and the gov will relocate the budget according their ''needs''. HCMC has always been contributing the most to the treasury consecutively for more than 20 years, but it never get to keep more than 25% of its income. While in many countries, it is obvious that their largest cities will get to keep more money to invest and upgrade infrastructure, city planning, security, etc., it is the opposite for HCMC. This city kept growing to the current pop. of 12+ million with out-of-control urban sprawls, high crime rates, public transportation is obsolete, increasing homelessness and many other problems. And somehow the treasury thinks it's ok to reduce % income relocation, for HCMC, it has been receiving only 18% of its income relocation for the last 5+ years. This amount of money is only enough to pay wages for city's authorities and maintain the downgrading infrastructure, and surely not enough to upgrade or support new projects. There ARE projects in HCMC to counter climate change : ''river''walls, reform and clear river channels, flood chambers, etc. But it all comes to NO MONEY and also the authoritarian system operating.
I lived in Seoul Korea for a few years and the yearly monsoon flooding there is outrageous as well 😬 i hope u guys find a solution soon!
Vietnam should learn from Japan how to solve this problem like building underground chamber to channel the water to the sea. Maybe it works during this raining season for Ho Chi Minh City.
@Chí Thiện Nguyễn I'm giving this comment because I saw your authority went to Holland seeking advice about the barriers. I'm sorry if my Comment doesn't apply to fit in the reality of a Vietnam current situation.
@Teofilus Setia Wahyudi dear friend, that smart tunnel indeed does help Kuala Lumpur problems comparing to those early days before it was done, slight rain fall could cause chaos. But now there isn't any flood occurred in KL even if it is a heavy downfall, well it is not 100% success because the surrounding away from KL the other part of urban areas are still flooding because KL and the surrounding are located in the basin of VALLEY.
@@blackrose_111 This is my stance on Vietnam.
No country in the world would be highly developed if they were a hot-climate, sanction-ridden, geographically-disadvantaged, historically-destroyed country (also noting no oil resources, access to maritime trade, good trade links, or the smallishness of the country). All negative aspects link with other aspects. Vietnam would probably be a developed country if they were a cold-climate country. At the most basic level, if they were a cold-climate country, Vietnam would have limited corruption and perhaps a fewer number of people too. No country in the world would blossom if they were in Vietnam's position.
@@footdrama8936 cough cough... Singapore
i'm from Ho Chi Minh city and this documentary so truth..
Do you know that Ho Chi Minh is a murder who killed over a million of your Vietnamese people? And the Vietnamese communist party continues his legacy by putting all the Vietnamese people in jail for daring to criticize your authoritarian Vietnamese communist government/party.
@@masonpinn3107 keep listening to the western media dude =)))
@@JayJayFilmbox Westerners... They're all brainwashed... Nothing new...
@@masonpinn3107 lmao
@@JayJayFilmbox
I rather trust Western media than trust your lying and thieving communist leaders.
They left out the PRIMARY CAUSE of Coastal Cities sinking is they sink because they consume underground water and the weight of the city sinks progressively over time. This is well known.
what a stunning place. i hope to spend some time there perhaps next year.
Yes, i have been here for 3 years already, there were districts in hcm that always flooding esp. in thao dien district 2 and dist.7.. but im staying in dist.3 right now, i did not experience flood here
Just call it Saigon, shorter, less controversial, and sounds better too.
Its Ho Chi Minh City
@@TheMightyShell Oh yeah? How'd Leningrad and Stalingrad work out for ya eh comrade?
All cities around the world within coastal areas and near to deltas has this kind of problem of sinking (by the rising seas and natural erosion)... The history of humankind has records of entire cities that gone because of the nature normal existence.
The question is: The speed to that have been fastened by human industrial activities. and challenge will be HOW TO CHANGE that.
But they blame climate change that caused cities to sink
I used to live on Tran Xuan Soan St. It looks like some infrastructure was built, but it keeps flooding.
If environmental impact studies were done perhaps they wouldn't have built such high densities on a weak soil foundation or levelling all the lakes and rivers that would have provided some mitigating factors.
Title: Ho Chi Minh City
Thumbnail: Central Vietnam during a flood
Am i a joke to you?
I think you're speaking cincerely.
Nhìn như Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Quận 7. Miền Trung gì.
You should do video about Singapore. Singapore is also sinking.
Its already done. Ignoramus.
Very well documented documentary speaking so deeply about the most prominent natural resource Water. All well versed and learned speakers are giving their valuable opinions. Saigon a famous world landward should be preserved for its people and the world for the future generations to live fearlessly.
It's always important to respect Mother Nature and not to molest her. Be cautious on this regard for development. Ho Chi Minh or Saigon must be saved.
Nice documentary enjoying it. Thanks.
SAIGON not ho chi minh
THE HOUSES AND THE ROADS ARE BEING BUILT HIGHER AND HIGHER ! EVERY DAY .
Saigon. It will always be Saigon.
Now i know why Skytrain Project in Ho CHI MINH is delayed.
This is all the government fault for poor expand planning. Most of the water way drained are very old and Saigon was surround area is a wet swamp before 1970
love saigon but some places there are so dirty due to so many trash
Trash and the environments. The air quality is very bad.
Visiting many coastal cities in Europe and Asia, then now, I call HCMC my working base. This is a very helpful explanation besides other academic papers. Climate change adaptation sounds very real here.
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That is easy to fix just make the drainage “ON TOP “ of the road and “vases” to hold the rain water. So sad to see a beautiful city trashed after 46 years
I remember one flooding night back in 1970. The year I graduated high school and the very first time I had a date with my girl on my Honda 50. The flood was so high to the level of not seeing the tires of my Honda. we both ended up in the water. It was so embarrassed, people around laughed their lung off. Why people include me back in those days laugh on anything. To my girl Lan wherever you are now, if I could go back in time, I would get a car instead.
LOL
4:29 homie just said "Daniel son" lol (karate kid)
Flooding in Saigon is definitely a bad sign. I was born in Saigon and grew up there for 13 years. I think the flood is due to man made. The city is not sinking. More trees are being cut. The city is not cleaning up the sewage system. When I was growing up there, we never experience flood. Flood only happened in the central and the north, but not the south. Even if flooding, it would only be less than 5 inches.
Well, land of saigon city is sinking by time ; sooner or later the water is over saigon :(((
same in my home city - Manila.. sinking as well. hehehe
Bulacan is.... Manila is far away from Bulacan...
All trashy cities should be sinked for good.😂🤣
I am not a Geologist, or Scientist. Just a curious human. I wonder if the numerous wells, weight of increased inhabitation, rising sea levels, and tectonic plate shifting, will cause extreme sunk holes as well as rapid soil liquefaction. Scary and dangerous indeed.
Wow Interested video! So sad that while the others country is facing with drought, HCM is suffering from too much rainwater. Here's also my master topic now. Flooding in HCM is an extremely complicated problem, not simply caused by exceeding precipitation or land subsidence. Poor infrastructure, failure on urban planning, shortage of budget .. etc. & even people awareness
when CNA reported Manila is syncing it actually showed footage of a nearby province and not a single clip of Metro Manila underwater, what a shame!
The sinking is supported by scientific facts. Do some research on it. Even the Philippines authorities, experts, academic et al do not dispute the fact and deny it. Manila has been sinking slowly in the past decades and is still sinking and will continue to sink before it reach a critical stage in the next few decades. Nobody claimed said it is sunk and is now underwater. Your ignorance is the shame........
Indonesia
Vietnam
Philippines
Have same problem
Raising sea level
Indonesia and Philippines will lose many islands sad noise
And all of them have the same cause: Corruption rooted in every level of government. More funds for their families, less for development of the country.
@@zaph2580 This is my stance on Vietnam.
No country in the world would be highly developed if they were a hot-climate, sanction-ridden, geographically-disadvantaged, historically-destroyed country (also noting no oil resources, access to maritime trade, good trade links, or the smallishness of the country). All negative aspects link with other aspects. Vietnam would probably be a developed country if they were a cold-climate country. At the most basic level, if they were a cold-climate country, Vietnam would have limited corruption and perhaps a fewer number of people too. No country in the world would blossom if they were in Vietnam's position.
It is not the problem of climate change, it is the engineering of CCVP IS NOT UP TO THE CHALLENGE and corruption of the government so extremely in Việt Nam.
Like to see more programs about the Laos region, especially the Mekong River and the people.
In the last century, the elevation of District 7 was much lower than the city center (district 1+3) so the water could drain from the downtown to District 7 and then to the Saigon River. However, since the beginning of the 21st century, more and more people have settled down in District 7. They built their houses and to prevent flooding, they raised the land up (the elevation of District 7 is now higher than it used to be). This has made other areas surrounding District 7 become a well. If you want to avoid flooding, I would suggest the areas near the airport.
And who do you think is responsible for the frequent flooding of Sai Gon every time it rains, even if it is only light raining? Americans, former South Vietnamese government, or the wonderfully stupid and useless communists currently in charge?
@@karllarsen8797 Our Government in charge is NOT stupid and useless like you said😏😏 There are good and bad things about our Government and I'm sure they are trying to improve everyday. At least they can control Covid-19 far and away better than the American Government. But, many Westerners always think Communist governments are such bad 😏😏. That's stereotype. And you still have thoughts like that. Vietnam is a one-party country, so we do NOT experience political violence, bombing, shooting, etc. We're living in peace and we DO appreciate it. That's why 2019 North Korea-United States Hanoi Summit was held in our capital. Flooding in HCMC is an issue and the authorities have had solutions but it does take time. Vietnam is a developing country. The fact that an issue in our country can be solved quickly and easily or not is also depended on finance, people's awareness, etc. Don't compare Vietnam to other developed countries because it's like comparing apples to oranges. You're too childish and narrow-minded. I think you should open up your mind rather than just being in a small square box. If you're a foreigner, I'm pretty sure the Vietnamese do NOT welcome you warmly!
@@hoanguyenxuan2671
1 If your communist government is not stupid, why does it still believe in a failed ideology?
2 Before the communist took control of South Vietnam in 1975, Tan Son Nhut airport at one time became the busiest airport in the whole world with so many US combat and transport airplanes took off and landed at Tan Son Nhut airport because that airport was never flooded no matter how heavy the rain might be.
But since you communists took over South Vietnam, Tan Son Nhat airport has been flooded multiple times and flights had to be diverted to other airports. If that is not evidence of communist stupidity and incompetence, then what?
3 I know that most Vietnamese people agree with me. If you believe that Vietnamese people do not welcome foreigners who think communist leaders of Vietnam are just a bunch of stupid, uneducated peasants, then why don't you hold a multi-party election and let's see if Vietnamese people will vote for candidates who call communists like Nguyen Phu Trong an idiot.
4 Why did the communists start the Vietnam War lasting 21 years killing more than 3 million Vietnamese?
@@karllarsen8797
1/ if our government was stupid, they would not abolish the failed centralised planning economy and may have collapsed just like Soviet and the Eastern bloc.
2/ we admit that the planning of the surrounding area of Tan Son Nhat airport has been ruined post-war, which lead to the existence of undesired crowded residential areas around the airport that prevent it from further expansion. The water drainage system of the airport is also obstructed because of people's activities.
3/ I am tired of your bullshit Arab Spring. Cool you Western have killed a lot of 'dictators', convicted them with 'genocide', 'violate human rights', 'building nuclear weapon'. You landed on their soil, destroyed their rulers and promised a bright future with demOcraCy. Now what? Iraq, Libya, Syria,... they are bloodshed.
A multi-party election? You have evidence that Vietnam will be better with multi-parties? Which parties dare to promise to make Vietnam grow faster than what the Communist have doing ? which parties dare to promise to totally eliminate corruption? The opposition of the Communist? Maybe you want South Vietnam reborn? Nah they were more corrupt than the communist and were not able to survive without aid from Americans you should know that. If they were good and had the support of people they would have become the winner of the war
4/A multi-party election (as you wish) across Vietnam should be run 2 years after 1954 Geneva conference. Ngo Dinh Diem, head of South Vietnam refused to do so.
@@trietle2586
I want to eliminate ngo dinh diem again.
most of the major cities in Southeast Asia are sinking :(
Sadly its true and its happening right now😔
that's why Indonesia is changing their capital
GUESS THEY HAVENT HEARD OF BIRTH CONTROL
7.27--....
how you explained so Details about this Delta Region.
Đọc cái clip này rồi tự nhiên nghĩ tới cái Metro. Nếu Sài Gòn mà lún dần dần như vậy thì cái Metro khi xây xong có sử dụng được không?
Không
Many cities in China also have the problem of flooded streets, even the cities in the north. The reasons may include land subsidence, drainage systems lacking repair, and inadequate green land. The corresponding strategies may include reducing the intensity of real estate development in the traditional city cores, building the sub-centers instead, and the so-called "spongy cities".
Trust me when I tell you, it floods in the mountain in Vietnam. Cat Tien mountains, stuck flooded at the mountain top resort in October 2019.
A recent scientific article stated that research showed the weight of highrises is pushing down the crust of the Earth in big cities around the world. That shouldn't be a surprise, because during the last ice age, huge amounts of ice did the same thing. Sea level rise from GW contributes as well.
2:18 The picture is from Central Vietnam. Should CNA Insider use picture from Ho Chi Minh City instead.
People are going to survive someway somehow anyway.
But no quality of life, many people already live like animals or worse
Like Nanking
The Government of Vietnam has created their own problems, they are allowing so many new
developments in such a short period of time.
population growth, building growth, but the
drainages around a city facing consequences
at a result flooding everywhere.. and there are
rivers and canals around full of rubbish ..
So don’t blames about a change of climate
Or Chinese release their dam cause issues.
I think the Vietnamese Government should stop further building developments until
find way to improve water drain away from a
City by opening more drainages , remove
Rubbish from canals and rivers perhaps
dig down deeper..
final warning to city there will be more buildings collapse and houses properties damage cause by flooding if situation not
Change..
This is my stance on Vietnam.
No country in the world would be highly developed if they were a hot-climate, sanction-ridden, geographically-disadvantaged, historically-destroyed country (also noting no oil resources, access to maritime trade, good trade links, or the smallishness of the country). All negative aspects link with other aspects. Vietnam would probably be a developed country if they were a cold-climate country. At the most basic level, if they were a cold-climate country, Vietnam would have limited corruption and perhaps a fewer number of people too. No country in the world would blossom if they were in Vietnam's position.
I love Saigon. Sadly, as in many other delta regions - not only in SE Asia, it is simply not a water issue, but really is more a 'concrete' problem...
South Vietnam must restore and help the former capital city Saigon to help the flooding issues
The Vietnam Veterans won't feel the same after they left since 1975
Who care about those traitors :v
Vietnamese live to build a country, not to enjoy pleasure