The Ministry of Education and Training has called for the further
involvement of teachers, education managers and students to foster the
national target programme for rural water supply and environmental
sanitation.
The Ham Luong Bridge i ntensified high pressure pumping station
in the Mekong Delta’s Ben Tre city will supply water to more than 10,000
people in two districts after being put into operation on May 26.
A new law was needed to tackle water pollution, participants agreed
at a workshop on policy and law on controls of water pollution held in
Hanoi on May 18.
About 15 million litres of clean water has been delivered to the
drought-affected districts of Thuan Nam and Bac Ai in southern
central Ninh Thuan province as part of the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC)’s
urgent relief to local residents.
Almost 68 percent of people living in rural areas in central Thua
Thien-Hue province have gained access to clean water thanks to
preferential loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies.
The Results-Based Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme funded by
the World Bank has thus far produced encouraging outcomes in northern Ha
Nam province.
The northern province of Thai Binh had 34 rural clean water supply
projects worth 2.1 trillion VND (100 million USD) as of this April,
benefiting 1.2 million residents in 175 communes.
Salt water filtration systems installed in the island of Song Tu Tay,
off the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, have proven effective in
bringing fresh water to local islanders.
The southern province of Kien Giang is working on a
pre-feasibility report on a water supply project in the island district
of Phu Quoc, according to Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s
Committee Le Khac Ghi.
The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) has provided 900 water tanks to 900 poor and
ethnic minority households in Ninh Thuan, Khanh Hoa, Dak Lak and Phu
Yen provinces in response to the region’s ongoing droughts.
