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The CARE (Centre of Asian Research on watEr / Centre Asiatique de Recherche sur l'Eau), based on the campus of Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam, develops fundamental and applied research on regional issues facing the Mekong Delta region. CARE founded in 2013, is one of the 6 research centres of the RESCIF network. It is located in Building B7 on the campus of the HCMUT.
CARE currently focuses on key issues such as:
- Water cycle: Understanding the dynamics of the Saigon-DongNai and Mekong river systems, groundwater budgets and severe floods induced by extreme rainfall events.
- Anthropogenic pollution: Characterizing emerging pollution in the environment (carbon and nutrients, microplastics, emerging contaminants, antibiotics, pesticides etc.), characterizing their spatio-temporal dynamics, determining their fate and assessing their risk to aquatic life and human health. Understanding human practices with chemicals and human perceptions of environmental degradation.
- Water management: Developing engineering techniques that can provide solutions to provide drinking water and reducing the risks associated with water consumption; determining suitable nature-based solutions to provide biodiversity benefits and to control water pollution from urban surface-runoff and municipal wastewater in urbanized areas.
- Coastal Hazards: Coastal erosion and flooding, their relation to ocean variability, land subsidence, sand and sediment supply, as well as mean sea level rise, storm surges and tides. Creating a vulnerability map to flooding, erosion and sea-level rise for the south region and identifying how the population can adapt to these risks.
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Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
IRD VIETNAM
Faculty of Environment and Resources
Faculty of Civil Engineering
