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The Mekong Delta province of Long An will carry out 31 water supply projects in 2021- 25 to benefit nearly 28,900 rural households.

Over 21 trillion VND (913 million USD) is needed to supply electricity to most rural households currently without access, heard a consultation conference in Hanoi on December 18 to pool investment for power supply projects in rural, mountainous, and island areas in the 2021-2025 period.

The Mekong Delta province of Long An is striving for 65 percent of its rural population to have clean water supply by 2025 to ensure health and increase quality of life.

After five years of implementing the project “Restructuring agriculture towards improving added value and promoting sustainable development”, agricultural production has surged significantly.

Three out of water supply projects using loans from the World Bank (WB) have been put into operation in Hanoi.

A clean water supply plant has been inaugurated in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh, benefiting 1,550 households in An Truong commune, Cang Long district.

Although access to credit is seen as a key factor in ending poverty, just 29 percent or so rural households have received loans, a new report says.

The project for adaptation to climate change in the Mekong Delta has produced positive results in Tra Vinh province, said Director of the project’s provincial coordinating board Huynh Nghia Tho.

With the rapid evolution of technology and the internet, consumers are changing their attitudes and behaviours.

All communes, wards and towns and over 97 percent of the total households in rural areas in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak have been connected to the national grid.

Nearly 3,000 rural households in the northern mountainous province Son La will be connected to the national power grid under a project that started on January 12.

Nearly 89 percent of households in rural areas, or 14.85 million households, had gained access to the national power grid by the end of 2015, according to the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group.

Up to 604,334 households in the southern province of Dong Nai, or 99.49 percent, have accessed the national power grid, according to the provincial Department of Industry and Trade.

Information related to socio-economy, household income, land and migration collected through rural household surveys conducted in 12 provinces in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.

As many as 86.5 percent of local households in rural areas in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre had access to clean water as of the end of June this year , heard a conference held on August 20.