Ninh Binh improves rural water quality, environmental hygiene

A two-month drive to improve rural water quality and environmental hygiene in northern Ninh Binh province has yielded positive outcomes following a wide range of activities.
A two-month drive to improve rural water quality and environmentalhygiene in northern Ninh Binh province has yielded positive outcomesfollowing a wide range of activities.

Since April15, about 1,500 leaflets on the benefits of clean water have been handedout to local people who were also encouraged to clean up theenvironment around three concentrated water supply stations in Quang Soncommune; the Quynh Son farm in Quynh Luu commune; and Son Thanh, ThanhLac, and Thuong Hoa communes.

Local people collected24.5 tonnes of waste, cleaned up 32 kilometres of roads and dredged 13.2kilometres of sewers. Meanwhile, about 83 percent of the tested watersupply stations met Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s standards, up 8.65percent from the last test.

More than 15,000families in 32 communes received concessional loans from a clean waterand household hygiene fund to build sanitary toilets. Some 2,000households were also supported with nearly 1.6 billion VND (about 74,400USD) from an energy efficiency promotion programme to build biogastanks.

Households within specific areas have also worked together to ensure their neighbourhoods are green and clean.

Vice Chairman of the Ninh Binh People’s Committee Dinh Chung Phungsaid the province will communicate the importance of clean water and theenvironment to residents via the local radio network.

It will also ask the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development toallocate finances from the national target programme on rural cleanwater and environmental hygiene for the construction of water supplyfacilities, which was previously suspended due to a lack of funding, headded.-VNA

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