Mekong Delta Communities
Millions inhabit the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam—a vast wetland experiencing seasonal flooding, monsoons, rising seas, and land subsidence. They live in stilt houses, travel by boat more than road, practice floating markets, and cultivate rice in flood-adapted agriculture. Extreme flooding during monsoon season, tropical storms, and increasingly severe saltwater intrusion due to climate change characterize life in this amphibious landscape where water dominates existence.