At the inaugural ceremony of the Thu Duc Water Plant Phase III. (Photo: V)
The Saigon Water Supply Corporation (SAWACO) put the Thu Duc Water Plant, phase III, into operation on August 21 in Ho Chi Minh City.
The project, capable of providing 300,000 cubic metres per day, is the first water plant of the city to apply advanced German technology that supplies safer water to local residents.
The water plant, which has a total investment of over 1.2 trillion VND (approximately 53 million VND), will help bring the total water supply for Ho Chi Minh City to 2.1 million cubic metres per day, sufficiently satisfying the city’s demand, SAWACO Chairman Tran Van Khuyen said.
He noted that one more newly-built water plant, Tan Hiep 2, is scheduled to be operational next year, adding to the city’s six existing others.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Director of the municipal Department of Transport Nguyen Thanh Chung said the launch of the Thu Duc water plant phase III is part of Ho Chi Minh City’s water supply plan through 2025.
The plan estimates that the city needs around 3.6 million cubic metres per day by 2025, necessitating the construction of additional five water plants at a total cost of 12 trillion VND or 528 million USD.
It will also required an additional 2,800 kilometres of water supply pipe networking with a total investment of 4.8 trillion VND or 211.2 million USD.-VNA
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The southern province of Dong Nai launched the construction of the Thien Tan Water Plant (Phase II) on June 25, which has a designed capacity of 100,000 cubic metres per day.
The Duong Dong Water Plant, with a daily capacity of 16,500 cubic metres, went into operation on July 17, bringing clean water to more than 5,000 households in the island district of Phu Quoc, Kien Giang province.
The People's Committee of HCM City recently approved a 4.37 trillion VND (200 million USD) project to construct and manage a clean water supply system in the suburban Cu Chi district.
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The strategic product, managed and operated by the agency’s centre for digital contents and communications (VNA Media), is an official channel for popularising the Party and State’s information and documents as well as delivering mainstream and trustworthy news to both domestic and international audiences through various kinds of multimedia formats.
Since President Ho Chi Minh founded Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper in 1925, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has become the voice of the people. During the resistance war against the colonialists, journalists took great personal risks to inspire patriotism and the will of rising up against foreign invaders.
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A hub for sharing best practices, the event aims to forge solutions for financial sustainability, public media contracts, audience engagement, content innovation, and newsroom restructuring. It is also a moment for Vietnam’s media to accelerate its progress and figure out what the “revolutionary press” means in a new era.
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At the inaugural ceremony of the Thu Duc Water Plant Phase III. (Photo: V)
