A ribbon of water runs alongside Ho Van Hong's star-apple and durian trees, just wide enough for the farmer's blue canoe to glide by. He scoops from the channel to water his orchard in the heart of the Mekong Delta. The grove has been reincarnated from its past life as a rice paddy, one that his family began tilling before the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
Asia's Age of Hydropolitics
Vietnam's Mekong Delta is sinking, but innovations offer hope
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