On August 16, Mr. Le Huu Toan - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of An Giang province - said that the locality has just sent a document to provincial departments, branches, and sectors; irrigation exploitation units; project management boards, project investors and People's Committees of communes and special wards on proactively responding to low pressure areas that are likely to strengthen into tropical depressions.
From the beginning of 2025 until now, natural disasters have occurred abnormally and extremely, seriously affecting the lives and production of people in An Giang province. In particular, at the end of July 2025, the first half of August 2025, the impact of storm No. 3 and heavy rain, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and lightning killed one person (due to lightning); collapsed 26 houses; blew off the roofs of 218 houses; 11 hectares of rice were affected; big waves submerged 5 fishing vessels and damaged many other properties of the state and people in the province. The estimated value of material damage is about 7.22 billion VND.
The Department of Agriculture and Environment requests that the Southern Irrigation Exploitation Company Limited, based on the production situation in the area and the development of heavy rain, coordinate with the Irrigation Department and localities to operate the Cai Lon, Cai Be, and Xeo Ro sluices in accordance with reality, and promptly handle if flooding occurs in the upstream and downstream areas of Cai Lon and Cai Be sluices.
An Giang Irrigation Exploitation Company Limited organizes the closure and operation of the sewer system appropriately, manages the safety of the dam to protect production, safety of people's lives and property.
Project Management Boards and Project Investors in the province closely monitor hydrometeorological forecasts and flood developments; inspect and review key projects and incidents at risk of incidents during heavy rain to proactively deploy response plans to ensure project safety. Pay special attention to underground works, underground works, and flowing works; be ready to relocate people, machinery, and construction equipment at risk of being affected...
The People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones closely monitor forecasts and warnings on meteorology and hydrology on developments of information warnings of rain, thunderstorms, tornadoes, lightning, flooding and landslides to promptly inform and propagate to local authorities and people to proactively implement response solutions suitable to the local situation.
Organize reviews and identify dangerous areas, especially mountainous areas at risk of landslides, mountain rocks and areas with warning of landslides on riverbanks and canals that are especially dangerous, within the warning of the Department of Agriculture and Environment to proactively evacuate people and property from dangerous areas. For places that do not have the conditions to be relocated immediately, localities must have proactive evacuation plans when natural disasters occur to ensure the safety of people's lives, especially solutions to handle early-hour landslides to limit the expansion of landslides at landslides in the area.
