Groundwater exploitation threatens HCMC
HCMC – HCMC is making effort to reduce groundwater exploitation to 100,000 cubic meters per day to combat
Over the three-year period, the golf course pumped around 600,000 cubic meters of groundwater without license.
According to Decision 412 issued on February 22 by the Quang Ninh People’s Committee, FLC made illegitimate gains through the unlicensed pumping of groundwater at the FLC golf course in the province’s Halong City.
The provincial government said FLC had dug three borewells, GK04, GK07 and GK08, in Ha Trung Ward, Halong City between March 2018 and March 17, 2021, even though it had secured no prior permission from the local authority.
Quang Ninh later fined FLC VND205 million for this administrative violation in September 2022.
The exploitation of groundwater has adversely impacted the groundwater volume, the geologic structure and eroded soil in the area, according to the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment.