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Viet Nam: Floods - Sep 2000

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Past
Countries
Viet Nam
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Disaster types
Flood

Between July and November 2000, more than 500 sq. kilometers in five Provinces of the Mekong Delta in the south of Vietnam were flooded. Vietnam's worst floods in 60 years, flood waters remained at critical levels for this entire period and affected the lives of over five million of the most impoverished people in Vietnam. Enormous economic losses were sustained and the humanitarian impact of the floods resulted in more than 480 deaths. More than half a million people were evacuated, some several times due to the unpredictability of the water levels. (IFRC, 24 Jan 2003)