For many years, water resources management in Vietnam was concentrated on activities ensuring the available freshwater … for agricultural production, including flood control. With the increase of water demands and the emergence of new water … economic transition process, the water sector has undergone a series of reforms, including various attempts to integrate …

In order to deal with problems related to both water quality and quantity as well as to strengthen the sustainable and … integrative management of the nation's water resources, the Vietnamese Government has adopted a wide spectrum of laws and … regulations. In recent years, more than 300 water-related regulations on the guidance and implementation of the Law on Water …

and ensuring the nation's food security. The government has undertaken considerable investments in irrigation and water … control to boost local rice production, especially in the Mekong Delta. Today, a large water bureaucracy plans, implements and … context, water user groups started to emerge from the 1990s onwards. This study on the trajectory of group development in Can …