HCM City implements phase 2 of environmental sanitation project
Ho Chi Minh City
(VNA) – HCM City has begun implementing phase two of an environmental
sanitation project by constructing a wastewater drainage system, according to the
management board of the HCM City Environmental Sanitation Project.
The drainage system is the first
component of the second phase of the project, with a value of 85 million USD
and is set to be completed within 36
months.
Phase two of the project has a
total investment capital of 524 million USD, 450 million USD of which comes
from World Bank loans, with the remaining 74 million USD from the city.
The project has two major
components: building a drainage system to move wastewater from Nhieu Loc – Thi
Nghe canal’s basin and District 2 to a wastewater treatment factory in Thach My
Loi ward, District 2, which is the second component.
Director of the management board
of the project Vuong Hai Long said the project aims to complete a system
collecting and treating wastewater for the Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe canal and
District 2.
Phase one of the project, with
total investment of 8.6 trillion VND (386 million USD), was completed in
August, 2012, helping reduce flooding and pollution and improve living
conditions for 1.2 million people in Districts 1, 3, 10 and Phu Nhuan, Tan
Binh, Binh Thanh and Go Vap districts.-VNA