Safe water provided for Khmer ethnic minority people
Monday, 23/04/2018 16:33 (GMT+7)
Over the past years, the Soc Trang provincial Centre for Safe Water and Rural Environmental Hygiene has made great efforts to bring safe water to rural residents, including poor Khmer ethnic minority people, using capital from the Government’s program on rural water, central and provincial budgets and assistance from international organizations, as well as people’s donations.
Water leading pipes constructed (Photo: VNA)
According to Nguyen Thanh Duoc, Deputy Director of the provincial Centre for Safe Water and Rural Environmental Hygiene, so far, the centre has invested in 151 concentrated rural water supply projects with overall length of some 1.65 million metres, providing safe water to more than 93,000 rural families, 50% being Khmer ethnic minority people.
As a result, as of late 2017, 51% of rural families, or over 132,000 rural families, had access to safe water. So far concentrated water supply works have been built in 87% of communes, and the rest are expected to be completed by 2020.
To ensure that all rural residents have safe water to use, the provincial Centre for Safe Water and Rural Environmental Hygiene has called on investment in building and expanding safe water supply networks, providing water to those in remote and disadvantaged regions.
Additionally, it has worked with providers to transfer water refining technology to those locations where water leading pipes cannot go through or those who live far from residential areas. In particular, poor families will be assisted in installing water meters and free use of 3 cubic metres of water per month each, until the end of 2018./.
Compiled by BTA
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