Laura Pestalozzi, Sandra Schilling

The sophisticated natural water- and hydro-system of the Red River Delta landscape is and was always important source for life and prosperity within the region. Together with the Mekong Delta, the Red River Delta (Bac Bo Plain) has become one of the most productive agricultural regions of Southeast Asia. This variability and moods of the river in the delta have forced the population already since the 11th century to restrain and to control the river with a vast system of dikes- and channel-infrastructures, allowing up to two rice-harvests a year.