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Hai Duong to supply clean water to all rural residents

The northern province of Hai Duong strives to help 98 percent of its rural population accessing hygienic water by the end of 2014, of which 65 percent will use clean water meeting the Health Ministry’s standards.
The northern province of Hai Duong strives to help 98 percent of itsrural population accessing hygienic water by the end of 2014, of which65 percent will use clean water meeting the Health Ministry’s standards.

Toachieve the target, the locality plans to expand the existing watersupply systems so that they can bring hygienic water to more 60,000people in 20 communes.

The local authorities have also set toprovide hygienic water for 100 percent of local schools and medicalstations by 2015.

They will work to promote theimplementation of the National Target Programme on Clean Water and RuralEnvironment Sanitation and the new-style rural building programme amonglocal people.

Campaigns to raise public awareness ofenvironmental sanitation will also be organised, while models ofenvironmental protection involved by the locals will be set up.

Poor households will be supported in building biogas systems to treat waste from their breeding activities.

As much as 97.6 percent of rural residents in Hai Duong gained access to hygienic water in the first half of this year.

Meanwhile, 96.9 percent of schools and 97.4 percent of medical stations used clean water in the period.-VNA
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