The German government will provide 7 million EUR to a project to improve waste water management and treatment for industrial zones in Vietnam.
The news came during an initial meeting to kick off the research project AKIZ that aims to promote waste water treatment measures for industrial zones in the Mekong delta province of Can Tho on March 24.
The province’s Tra Noc Industrial Zone has been chosen to be the first place to apply the recommendations on waste water and sludge treatment, reuse and harness to produce energy.
AKIZ is a joint research project by scientists from the Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management at the University of Written and seven universities and institutes of Vietnam . It was started last year and will be completed by 2014.
During the period, there will be six sub-projects, mainly on studies and evaluations of waste water’s environmental impacts, measures to abstract toxic substances, harness energy from waste water and apply modern technologies for sludge treatment.
Covering on an area of 290 hectares, the Tra Noc Industrial Zone has a total of 166 projects and so far 128 of them have been operational across the board, from leather and footwear production, veterinary medicines, construction materials, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, fertilizers, chemicals, food and seafood processing industries.
Everyday, around 12,500 cu.m of waste water is discharged directly from the industrial zone to rivers and canals without being treated, seriously damaging the surrounding environment./.
The news came during an initial meeting to kick off the research project AKIZ that aims to promote waste water treatment measures for industrial zones in the Mekong delta province of Can Tho on March 24.
The province’s Tra Noc Industrial Zone has been chosen to be the first place to apply the recommendations on waste water and sludge treatment, reuse and harness to produce energy.
AKIZ is a joint research project by scientists from the Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management at the University of Written and seven universities and institutes of Vietnam . It was started last year and will be completed by 2014.
During the period, there will be six sub-projects, mainly on studies and evaluations of waste water’s environmental impacts, measures to abstract toxic substances, harness energy from waste water and apply modern technologies for sludge treatment.
Covering on an area of 290 hectares, the Tra Noc Industrial Zone has a total of 166 projects and so far 128 of them have been operational across the board, from leather and footwear production, veterinary medicines, construction materials, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, fertilizers, chemicals, food and seafood processing industries.
Everyday, around 12,500 cu.m of waste water is discharged directly from the industrial zone to rivers and canals without being treated, seriously damaging the surrounding environment./.
