Vietnam / 1975 - Present / Major River Systems

According to the International Water Management Institute environmental research organisation global water stress is increasing, and a third of all people face some sort of water scarcity. Where demand exceeds supply and no effective management operates, there will be conflicts between the various players involved.

Under National Agro-Food Policy, agriculture sector has been identified as a National Key Result Area. Under this initiative, the agriculture sector is targeted to increase the Gross National Income by RM28.9 Billion (USD9.1 billion) to reach RM49.1 billion (USD15.4 billion) by 2020. The agricultural sector is also targeted to create more than 109,000 job opportunities by 2020, primarily in the rural areas.

Vietnam is known for many things such as their culture, traditions, cuisines, landscape, war, and their people. Vietnam includes many different landforms as well. Vietnam’s absolute location is 14.0583 N and 108.2772 E. As for its relative location it is surrounded by three countries and the Pacific Ocean, the three countries surrounding Vietnam is Cambodia and Loas to the West, while China is to the North. Some physical features of Vietnam are the Red River Delta that is fronted by the hills that rise into the high mountains in the Northwest, the coastal lowlands and the Mekong River Delta in the Southern regions, and the Annam Highlands which covers up most of the central landscape. About twenty percent of low-lands covers the country.

Despite having little rights, hardworking women and children were often the key to success for independent farms. For these small, family-run farms, the children were often the ones who helped work and manage the land. Women were often the backbone of a household, doing the housework, weaving, cooking, and raising large amounts of children. Women were practically required to bear many children over a lifetime in order to staff the farm to maintain the family’s livelihood.

Increased access to improved water sources and sanitation facilities is the key to bringing these countries out of poverty and into prosperity. Water is essential to life on Earth and has thus been declared a human right by the UN. The US has not yet formally acknowledged this human right, a right which, if ignored, could launch regions such as the Lake Chad Basin into a violent water war. Lake Chad is used by four countries as a water source, and has shrunk by 90% in the past 50 years due to mismanagement and climate change. It is time for the United States to do what it does best: lead.

Thanks to the United Nations general assembly recognizing the need for clean water in Resolution 64/292, the states and international organizations have been called on to provide funding and resources to help developing countries provide safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water to all. This is a step in the right direction, seeing as women and children in some countries have to walk more than 30 minutes to collect water- if there is any water to collect at all.

There is a water crisis which faces many parts of the world and it is a threat to survival of human beings since humans are primarily dependent on water. Shortage in drinking water is beginning to show its effects in first world countries, but is a current major problem facing lesser developed countries which have not taken drastic steps to harvest water and purify it to make it safe for human consumption. In developed countries the population growth has strained available water resources and stretched the ability of governments and private firms to provide safe drinking water to the vast majority of the population. Seventy one percent of

Water, like food, is a necessity for human life that is used for many purposes such as agricultural, industrial, and domestic systems. While water is a common element around the world not all of it is clean and able to be consumed or used by humans. With only a percentage of the world’s water being clean and the use of water increasing, the availability of water around the world has become a common issue in the developing and even the developed world. This may be a smaller problem in areas close to clean water sources compared to areas far from a clean water source but, the availability of water is not strictly based on location, it also depends on the specific political and social needs and issues of the area as well. These all become issues that must be accounted for when deciphering whether water is a basic human right or a commodity and what action must be taken to aid the developing water systems in community’s that lack them.

Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia that is bordered by China, the Gulf of Thailand, the China Sea, Laos and Cambodia. Vietnam is the location of the Vietnam War which started as a conflict between the Communists of North Vietnam and the non-Communists of South Vietnam. The Vietnam War was “…a manifestation of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.” U.S. President Harry S. Truman involved the United States in the war in an effort to stop the spread of Communism. “[It was] America’s longest and most unpopular war. It failed to achieve either of its two objectives – to defend a small, strategically unimportant country against what was seen as Communist aggression and to sustain America’s credibility as an ally in the [C]old [W]ar.” The Vietnam War lasted 18 years, 5 U.S. Presidents, and saw the U.S. military fight Communist forces that used new warfare tactics

America got involved in the vietnam war because they didn't want another country going to communism. The French asked The U.S.A. to join the war because they needed help, and the U.S. has been an ally with the french since the revolutionary war. The viet cong were terrorizing people forcing the countries to become communists. This is in my top five list of history that has happened to america because America suffered great losses.

Until the First Indochina War, the region was a colony of France, known as Indochina, part of the French Union – in the war, troops were drawn from elsewhere in the French Union to fight in the war against the Viêt Minh (lead by Hô Chí Minh). Later, between the years 1955 & 1965 – the Americans were supporting Ngô Đình Diêm, a puppet President they had helped install. However, the Americans didn’t realise what a problem he would become. He ran his authoritarian and

The Pacific Ocean is the largest geographic feature as it covers more than 64 million square miles which is equivalent to one-third of the earth’s surface. In fact the Pacific is larger than all of the continents combined. The first European recorded sighting of the Pacific Ocean was by Vasco Nunez a Spanish explorer.

Land, which is the major asset for the poor who are living in rural areas, provides an important economic and social foundation, and women’s unequal access to land has significant bearing on their social development, economic status and their basic rights.

Fazileh’s comparative study shows the effect of geographical distribution in generating gender identity and female roles in rural areas (Dadvar, 72). The study as seen from the two different rural areas reveals a significant outlook between genders in terms of women’s social rights and roles in both economic and social activities. The studies in two different townships in Iran, Langroud in north Iran and Paveh in the west show a variance in gender relations and especially in female participation in activities as agriculture and the general attitude men of the same locality depict towards the same.

For Bihar, the concentration is low however cold and sub-humid weather eases the requirements for irrigation considerably. In most of the regions, the chief concern for societies is to access the water for agriculture and not the physical accessibility of water. For deprived societies, the harvesting of water fail to offer any cost-effective solution for gaining access to the water.