we have and you know why it from the international union for conservation of nature with us he joins us from vietnam and you know we've just had a round up of the water shortages across the continent let's start with where you are in southeast asia there have been places that haven't seen much water in years tell us about that. yes certainly in the mekong delta in vietnam so in the south of where i'm based. we just come through the worst drought in history. in the mekong delta and this follows on from the heels of the 20152060 in el nino driven drought that was at that time the worst in history in the 19 year recorded history of the me come delta in terms of water levels sand and forced fresh water availability. and this is had considerable. negative consequences both on. human populations says well it's the agriculture which is the main focus off people's livelihoods here in the mekong delta and it's a major export. area as well exporting rice to send troops and lots of agriculture type products as well. one of the one of the consequences of this drought. is that the the lack of fre

we have and you why it from the international union for conservation of nature with us he joins us from vietnam and you know we've just had a round up of the water shortages across the continent let's start with where you are in southeast asia there have been places that haven't seen much water in years tell us about that. yes certainly in the mekong delta in vietnam so in the south of here where i'm based. we just come through the worst drought in history in the mekong delta and this follows from the heels of the 20152016 el nino driven drought that was at that time the worst in history in the 100 year recorded history of the may come delta in terms of water levels sand and forced fresh water availability. and this is had considerable. negative consequences both on. human population says well as the agriculture which is the main focus off people's livelihoods here in the mekong delta and it's a major export. area as well exporting rice to send troops and lots of agriculture type products as well. one of the one of the consequences of this drought. is that the the lack of fresh water av

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the international union for the conservation of nature calls peaks land the largest natural carbon still on the. it's now the height of summer in silky antero and is steve heading back to the site they started rewilding at the tail end of winter they want to see if their work is paying off today we have this it being a former mining area that has been restored underwater and one of the key questions on. the question of what are they greenhouse gases and how much are they releasing or trapping and what happens before restoration and afterwards and today we are using. very high and scientific equipment something called trace gas and i was there it's one of the firms in the quote area of. criticize methane and korean carbon dioxide my ferments as a mobile unit. this unit is worth $60000.00 terror is hoping it can provide crucial data to bring the nation and the world on board with his rewilding scheme how does it look like. ok up everything for your. consideration and what's going on with the c o 2 and always yeah ok so that's pretty steady so we are identifying that there are some pockets