The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has intensified inspections of industrial zones to ensure they build and operate concentrated waste water treatment systems.
Construction on the country’s biggest wastewater treatment station with a daily capacity of 270,000 cubic metres started in Thanh Liet commune, Thanh Tri district, Hanoi on October 7.
Quang Ninh province has worked with Swiss company Mister Loo AG on a plan to build environmentally-friendly public toilets in an effort to people’s health and the environment.
Authorities of central Ninh Thuan province and the Dutch Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City on August 18 signed an agreement on building a system of collecting, treating and reusing wastewater.
The Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) Company in the central province of Nghe An started construction on a wastewater treatment plant with a daily capacity of 28,000 cu.m on August 2.
Hanoi is speeding up the construction of the Cau Nga wastewater treatment plant in Hoai Duc district, which will treat wastewater discharged from the craft villages.
The foreign direct investment (FDI) sector, which has significantly contributed to the growth of the Vietnamese economy, has on the other hand posed negative impacts to the nation’s ecosystem.
The World Bank (WB) has said it recently approved an extra fund of 119 million USD for the ongoing Urban Water Supply and Wastewater Project in Vietnam.
The southern province of Binh Duong and the World Bank concluded negotiations on a 92 million USD loan for the urban wastewater collection and treatment project in Di An town on April 29.
The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) has pledged to support the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho to carry out a waste water treatment project in the locality.
Belgium will boost cooperation with the Mekong Delta in water purification and sewage treatment in the foreseeable future, Belgian Ambassador Jehanne Roccas told authorities of Can Tho city on March
The World Bank (WB) has confirmed a package of 239 million USD from the bank’s IDA and 46 million USD from (IBRD) to implement the second phase of the Coastal Cities Environmental Sanitation Project.
A more transparent legal framework as well as additional incentive policies are needed to attract investment in wastewater treatment projects in HCM City, especially under the mode of PPP.
The Prime Minister has approved a “Sewage and Wastewater Treatment in Di An town area” project to be implemented in the southern province of Binh Duong.
Twenty traditional craft villages that were identified as Hanoi's worst polluters will receive Government funds totaling 100 billion VND to build wastewater treatment systems by 2020.
Industrial parks nationwide discharge more than a million cubic metres of wastewater each day, 75 percent of which is untreated and harmful, according to a workshop held in Hanoi on December 1.
The Belgian Government will provide 252 billion VND in official development assistance for a 439-billion-VND project on wastewater treatment and drainage systems in Thai Nguyen province.
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