Hanoi calls for investment in wastewater treatment projects

Hanoi is calling for investments into wastewater treatment projects from 2016 – 2020, in a bid to protect the environment for sustainable development.
Hanoi calls for investment in wastewater treatment projects ảnh 1Illustrative image (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi is calling for investments into wastewater treatment projectsfrom 2016 – 2020, in a bid to protect the environment for sustainabledevelopment.

These projectsare in Thanh Thuy commune, Thanh Oai district; Van Canh commune in Hoai Ducdistrict; Ha Dong district; and Son Tay town.

They will beincluded in the list of projects to be presented at the city’s investmentpromotion conference slated for June.

As thecity’s key tasks in 2017 will include environmental protection, the municipalDepartment of Natural Resources and Environment will set up teams to coordinatewith relevant agencies and localities in promptly dealing with arising problemsin pollution control and environmental violations.

The agencywill call for resources in addressing environmental issues at local industrialparks and zones, urban zones and trade villages, including building wastewatertreatment stations in 50 seriously polluting trade villages, using thewastewater treatment Duong Lieu – Cau Nga model in Hoai Duc district.

It willaccelerate the implementation of environmental projects, particularly the wasteand wastewater treatment projects in Son Dong and Van Canh communes, Hoai Ducdistrict; Thanh Thuy commune in Thanh Oai district; and a concentrated wastetreatment in Dong Ke hamlet, Tran Phu commune, Chuong My district.

Hanoi hascompleted and put into operation a wastewater treatment plant in Duong Lieucommune, Hoai Duc district and a wastewater treatment plant in the West Lake,with a daily capacity of 20,000 cubic metres; and started construction of awastewater treatment facility in Yen Xa, with a daily capacity of 270,000 cubicmetres.

In the firstquarter this year, the industrial solid garbage-burning station, with a dailycapacity of 75 tonnes funded by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial TechnologyDevelopment (NEDO) organisation has recently been put into operation inNam Son, raising the rate of hazardous industrial waste treatment to over 90percent.

The Fukuoka– Japan waste filling project in Xuan Son waste treatment area in Son Tay town,with a daily capacity of 240 tonnes have treated over 300,000 tonnes of waste. -VNA
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