Local woman uses clean water (Source: baolongan.vn)Long An (VNA) - The Mekong Delta province of Long An is strivingfor 65 percent of its rural population to have clean water supply by 2025 toensure health and increase quality of life.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said it willpropose the provincial People’s Committee continue stepping up publicinvestment in rural water supply facilities, with a focus on large-scale,inter-commune and inter-district facilities.
It will complete adjustments to the province’s water supply planning,which will concentrate on ensuring public health and social welfare and increasingquality of the locals’ life by providing water to poor households.
The department will also ask relevant agencies to coordinate withlocalities in supervising and monitoring the quality of water at ruralfacilities managed by private businesses, and in guiding how to disinfectwater.
According to Long An’s rural environment hygiene and clean watercentre, during 2016-2020, the provincial People’s Committee has allocatednearly 300 billion VND (12.9 million USD) from the provincial budget andnew-style rural building capital for 107 facilities in border andunderprivileged communes, and an additional 33 billion VND for 17 water supplyfacilities in areas affected by drought and saline intrusion.
The number of rural households using clean water increased from 16.6percent in 2015 to 51.82 percent in late 2019. The figure is expected to reach52 percent late this year./.
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