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Not to be confused with.: Water and SanitationDataAccess to an98% (2015)Access to78% (2015)Continuity of supply21.6 hours per day on average in 68 cities (2009), often at low pressureAverage urban water use (liter/capita/day)50 (2004 in small towns), 80−130 (2009 in towns and cities)Average urban water tariff (US$/m3)0.26 (2009)Share of household metering96% in cities (2009)Annual investment in water supply and sanitationUS$156 million per year (average 1998−2002), corresponding to less than $2 per capita per yearSources of financingca. 60% external donors, ca.
25% internal public sources, ca. Contents.Access In 2015, 98% of the total population in Vietnam had access to, or 99% and 97%, for the urban and rural population, respectively. That means that around 2 million people lacked access to 'improved' water. Regarding, 78% of the population in Vietnam had access to, or 94% of the urban population and 70% of the rural population. Still, approximately 21 million people in Vietnam, in 2015, lacked accessed to 'improved' sanitation.According to the UN's, access to an increased from 58% in 1990 to 96% in 2010.
According to Do Nam Thang from the Scientific Institute for Environment Management, pollutions from the upstream water flows, rainfall, atmosphere accumulation, water drainage, water absorption and hydrographic changes caused a decline in quality of rural water resources.
However, most Vietnamese receive water from a tap in the yard or a public tap in the village from where they have to carry water to their home. In 2010, only 23% of Vietnamese had a tap in their home. There are substantial differences in access between urban and 'rural' areas. 70% of the Vietnamese population lives in rural areas, but many so-called rural areas are actually small towns, e.g. In the densely settled Red River Delta. In urban areas, 59% had a tap in their home, while in rural areas this share was only 8%.
In 2009 over 200 out of approximately 650 district towns did not have any piped water system.Access to increased from 37% in 1990 to 75% in 2011. There is a significant gap between urban areas, where access stands at 93%, and rural areas with an access of only 67%. In 2009, 75% of households in provincial towns were not connected to a sewer.
Septic tanks are common, but with the exception of, no town offers a reasonable desludging service. Water resources Vietnam has abundant surface and ground water resources. Nevertheless, local shortages can occur during the dry season. For example, the basins of the in South Vietnam, the Southeast River Cluster, in North Central Vietnam, Kone River and Huong River are expected to be at risk of exceeding projected water needs in 2020.The 7 million people in receive 93% of their drinking water from two treatment plants on the Dong Nai River and the much smaller Sai Gon River, with the remaining 7% coming from overexploited groundwater that is polluted by seawater intrusion and contamination. Dong Nai River, which is regulated further upstream by two dams, has ample water resources to supply the growing city with more water. However, in dry years drinking water supply competes with agricultural uses that may together exceed water availability.with its more than 6 million inhabitants receives 80% of its water from groundwater.
Groundwater is polluted by ammonium with a concentration that is 5 to 10 times (7–20 mg/l) higher than the allowed standard. Surface water comes from the Gia Lam plant completed in 1994 and the Thang Long North-Van Tri plant completed in 2004, both financed by Japanese development assistance. It is planned that surface water from the Da River, the Red River and the Duong River will satisfy the growing water demand in the future and gradually replace the existing ground water. During the dry season in 2013 several districts of Hanoi went completely without water. A transmission pipeline from the existing plant on the suffered numerous breaks, exacerbating water scarcity. The Vietnamese company Vinaconex built the pipeline with fibreglass-reinforced pipes that it manufactured itself using. With anti-Chinese sentiment riding high in Vietnam, the faults have been blamed on the perceived low-cost Chinese technology behind the manufacturing process.
When a Chinese firm won a contract to builda second pipeline in 2016, the government cancelled the contract. Service quality Drinking water quality In early 2009 tests by the Vietnam Institute of Biotechnology showed widespread contamination of municipal tap water, including high levels of e-coli. Most residents boil drinking water, because they do not trust the quality of the tap water, or use bottled water.
Some tap water samples were also contaminated with ammonia at levels that were 6–18 times higher than the allowed level. Ammonia in drinking water is not a direct health risk, but it can compromise disinfection efficiency, cause the failure of some filters, and it causes taste and odor problems. Arsenic levels were two to three times higher than acceptable according to the World Health Organization guidelines. Bacteria were also found in bottled water samples, according to analyses by the Ho Chi Minh City health department in 2009, leading to more than 38 water bottling firms ordered to be closed. Pollution and wastewater treatment. 98 percent of rivers and lakes in Hanoi do not meet water quality standards.Water pollution is a serious issue in Vietnam as a result of rapid industrialization and urbanization without adequate environmental management.
As of 2008 only 10 percent of municipal wastewater was treated, and only 45% of industrial zones were expected to have wastewater treatment of some kind in 2010. The pollution of rivers and lakes in Hanoi is 'alarming' according to municipal authorities, as up to 98 per cent of 200 rivers and lakes fail to meet the required water quality. Sewer systems consist of combined sewers, channeling both rainwater and municipal sewage.
Small enterprises engaged in food processing and textile dyeing in so-called 'craft villages', of which there are 700 in the Red River Delta alone, discharge untreated wastewater. An analysis by the University of Technologies and the Ministry of Science and Technology showed that 100% of wastewater samples taken from craft villages exceed allowed levels of pollution. Vietnam also has more than 200 registered industrial zones without sustainable wastewater treatment. Industrial zones discharge 1 million cubic meters of untreated sewage per day, about 70 percent of all industrial wastewater. 8 industrial zones will be equipped with wastewater treatment plants with the help of a US$50 million loan from the World Bank approved in 2012. It is also planned to construct 30 wastewater treatment plants in the Mekong Delta until 2020, including 13 plants for domestic wastewater treatment and 17 for industrial wastewater treatment in Can Tho, a Giang, Kien Giang and Ca Mau provinces. In 2012 Hanoi expected to start the operation of the upgraded Yen So waste water treatment plant with a design capacity of 200,000 cubic meters per day; eight more wastewater treatment plants are planned in Hanoi alone.
Responsibility for water supply and sanitation Responsibility for policy setting Within the national government responsibility for water supply and sanitation is shared between three Ministries. Urban water supply and sewerage is under the Ministry of Construction. Rural water supply is under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, while rural sanitation and hygiene are under the Ministry of Health. The structure of Ministries is mirrored at the provincial level, where each Ministry has branches. The 58 have considerable autonomy in implementing policies. For example, some focus on public sector service provision, while others − especially in the South - promote the private sector.National policies and targets The government policy is to achieve full cost recovery for water supply and partial cost recovery for urban sanitation. Decree 117/2007 requires water supply tariffs to be set to full cost recovery and Decree 88/2007 requires sanitation to be charged through a surcharge of the water tariff at a minimum of 10% to achieve recovery of the operation and maintenance costs.
In 2009 the government introduced the policy of “socialization” or “equitization” of water supply companies through Prime Minister Instruction 854/2009. The policy is a byword for creating financially autonomous utilities that would ultimately be able to borrow from commercial banks. A National Strategy aims to increase access to clean water in rural Vietnam, such as here in the Mekong Delta where water in canals is abundant, but not drinkable without treatment.The government aims at providing 90% of the urban population with access to safe drinking water and at collecting and treating 100% of the urban wastewater by 2020. The latter goal had been set for 2010 as part of the Vietnam Development Goals, but only 10% of urban wastewater was treated as of 2008 according to the Ministry of Construction. Furthermore, the government aims at reducing non-revenue water to 15% by 2020, to provide 120–-150 liters of water per capita per day, and to make water companies financially self-sustaining by 2025. The latter target had also been set for 2010, but was missed.There is a National Strategy for Rural Clean Water Supply and Sanitation that was approved in 2000, which emphasizes a demand-responsive approach, meaning that users should take important decisions such as the most appropriate technology and the model of service provision.Policy implementation and monitoring The 'equitization' was completed in 2010, but – unlike the central government intended – the provincial governments used water utilities to engage in lucrative real estate deals. Provincial and local governments are reluctant to raise tariffs in line with government policies, and the sanitation surcharge is often insufficient to recover even operating costs, leaving local governments with the burden to subsidize the operating costs of wastewater companies.
Tariffs were thus barely increased and the level of cost recovery remains low, especially for wastewater. The concluded in 2010:'(the) government's intention to privatize water companies through the gradual process of equitization has not yet had the impact that may have been intended.
Private ownership of a share of the system assets was not backed up by clearly defined and verifiable performance indicators (.) The process to date has been characterized by a loss of management control, with no (short term) benefit to either consumers or (potentially, in the long term) to the condition of the system's assets. Instead, the equitization of water and wastewater companies is providing these companies with a Business License and a de facto authorization to grow outside their areas of core competence, posing a major threat to service delivery, due to a lack of proper regulation and control.' There is no meaningful monitoring system for the sector goals. The sector goals concerning access to drinking water and sanitation are not defined in terms of the definition of the UN's, which is considered too loose, but in terms of a more narrow definition of access.
There is a large number of performance criteria, but there are no baseline data and no methodology for monitoring. There may even be a disincentive for provinces to improve their monitoring systems, since it is in their interest to show that their access figures are low and that they are in need of more central funds.In rural areas decision-making often remains top-down, with little or no meaningful participation by users. For example, in some provinces in Central Vietnam piped water supply with meters is provided at high costs, while users continue to use water that comes in hose pipes from nearby sources, because it is cheaper and is considered of better quality.
The Asian Development Bank concludes:Local capacity for operation and maintenance (.) is lacking. Capacity building and monitoring and evaluation (.) have proven inadequate so far. Commune People's Committees are supposed to guide the establishment of management boards for water supply and sanitation but members (.) lack the skills needed to carry out their tasks (.) households are either reluctant or unable to pay for water supply (.) after schemes have been built, people either do not use them at all or use them sparingly, supplementing them with water from unimproved sources, resulting in an unintended overcapacity of schemes themselves. Responsibility for service provision Water supply and sanitation in Vietnam is the responsibility of numerous categories of service providers, with substantial differences in the categories of service providers between urban and rural areas.Urban areas Water supply in cities and some larger towns is provided by state-owned provincial Water Service Companies (WSCs). Provincial WSCs have evolved from a centralized national water supply organization during the 1990s. Their autonomy is still limited. Key decisions such as budgets, staff salary and benefits, and senior management appointments require approval by the provincial government.
Assets are owned by the province, not the WSC. There is no contractual relationship between the Province and the WSC. Some WSCs are Public Service Enterprises (PSEs), while others have converted to private-law enterprises on the basis of the Enterprise Law. Some WSCs only operate the water systems, while others also design or even build them. Some even manufacture equipment. Some WSC are active outside their geographical jurisdiction.Sewerage and wastewater treatment in cities is the responsibility of Provincial Urban Environmental Companies. In some provinces they provide only sewerage and wastewater treatment, while in others they have many other responsibilities such as solid waste collection, and again in other provinces WSCs are also in charge of sewerage.Private sector participation in urban water supply is limited to (BOT) contracts for drinking water treatment plants.
In Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), a Malaysian firm has been operating the Binh An plant since 1994. The Thu Duc 2 treatment plant in HCMC and a raw water pumping station supplying water to Ha Noi, including a transmission main from, are owned and operated. Rural areas.
This section needs expansion. You can help. ( June 2013)JICA supports 'water environment improvement' in the provinces.
In, near Ho Chi Minh City, JICA provides a low-interest loan of almost 20 billion Yen (US$170 million) for a sewer system and measures to conserve the city's source of drinking water. World Bank The World Bank provides support through 12 projects approved between 1997 and 2013 with a total lending of more than US$1 billion.
One of them is the Red River Delta rural water supply and sanitation projects that promoted participatory approaches through the creation of joint-stock companies.The World Bank-administered Global Partnership for Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) supports public-private partnerships for water supply in 75 villages in Central Vietnam through a US$4.5 million grant for the. Asian Development Bank In February 2011 the ADB approved a $1bn 10year-facility for water supply in seven or more cities. In December 2015 the ADB approved a loan to expand a water treatment plant on the to supply Hanoi with drinking water, replacing contaminated groundwater that is currently used to supply the city's residents.
The loan proceeds will also be used to connect households west of the city along the transmission line from the Da River to Hanoi. However, in 2016 the Hanoi People's Committee awarded a licence to build another water treatment plant on the west of the city in an area without a distribution network. The licence was awarded without bidding, using a legal loophole that allows to bypass competitive bidding that is prescribed in a decree on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) passed as recently as 2015. The private company that received the license is Vietnam-Oman Investment Company (VOI) – a joint venture of the State General Reserve Fund of, State Capital Investment Corporation of Vietnam, state-owned technology enterprise Newtatco, VietinBank Capital, and the Hanoi Water Limited Company (Hawacom). References.