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In general, Vietnam's water supply has much room improvement. While 78 percent of urban households have piped water, only 44 percent of the rural households can be considered to have ready access to safe drinking water. Among the country's 627 district towns ( with populations ranging from 4,000 to 50,000 ), more than 400 still lack any form of piped water supply. |
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In major cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh and Da Nang, rapid urbanization has also found water supply facilities lagging behind. Water quality is yet another major issue, as polluted waters are found everywhere throughout the country, despite various attempts to clean up its water supplies. As such, authorities are urging for major protocols for wastewater treatment by cities, towns and majors factories. |
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Hanoi alone needs more than 300,000 cu m of clean water a day to meet the demand of its residents. Currently, only 60% of the demand has been met. The average output of clean water is 430 - 440,000 cu m a day, which has seen an annual increase of 9.18% in the last five yeras. However, the rise could not catch up with the increasingly high demand of the city. Mean while, the loss ratio of water remains high, at 40% of the output.
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Currently, the country has underway 170 urban water supply projects, valued at close to USD 1 billion, which are aimed at providing clean water throughout the nation by 2020 are underway. For the rural regions, the government has targeted to provide 100 percent of the population with access to safe water by 2020. This ambitious target points out the potential for business in the Vietnamese water and wastewater industry.
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