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63. The Strategy proposes solutions to develop

“multi-purpose irrigation”. How is this understood?

In a narrow sense, irrigation serves (storms, floods), to serve land reclamation,
agricultural production by mainly providing environmental and ecological improvement,
irrigation water for crops and aquatic products industrial production, navigation, power
and draining water during inundation, storms, generation, national security, climate change
and floods. However, irrigation is more broadly response, etc.
understood as the activities aiming to manage, In Article 2 of the Law on Irrigation 2020,
protect and develop water sources, exploit irrigation with a more comprehensive, multi-
water’s benefits, and limit its adverse effects to objective approach is to synthesize solutions
serve people’s demands and sustainable social to store, regulate, transfer, distribute, supply,
and economic development. It has contributed irrigate and drain water for agriculture
to the country’s political stability and socio- production, aquaculture, salt production in
economic development. The objectives of combination with a water supply and drainage
irrigation include irrigation, water supply for for daily life and other economic activities;
people’s living, flow control, water balance contributing to natural disaster prevention
(in rainy and dry seasons), meeting required and control, environmental protection, climate
water use during the year, limiting the loss change adaptation and assurance of water
of life and property due to natural disasters security.

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