A project to manage industrial pollution in the basins of Dong Nai,
Nhue and Day rivers was launched in Hanoi on April 2.
The project has a
total investment of nearly 59 million USD, including 50 million USD in
loan from the World Bank.
The five-year project
aims to reduce the environmental pollution at industrial zones on the
banks of the Dong Nai, Nhue and Day rivers.
It will be initially carried out in four provinces of Ha Nam, Nam Dinh, Ba Ria–Vung Tau and Dong Nai.
The project will help enhance the institutional and technical capacity
in the field, while encouraging the community’s engagement in the
supervision and implementation of environmental protection regulations.
Vu Dai Thang, Head of Industrial Zone Management
Department under the Ministry of Planning and Investment said the
project will set up observation stations to control waste discharged
into the rivers, establish a fund to encourage enterprises to build
waste water treatment systems, and improve environmental quality
management capacity.
Accordingly, 17 automatic water quality observation stations will be set up in the basins of the three rivers.
At least 10 industrial zones in the four provinces will receive
preferential loans to build their waste water treatment systems, while
2.500 officials will be trained to improve their pollution management
capacity.-VNA