According to the report of Binh Dinh Province People’s Committee at the launching ceremony of national week on fresh water and rural environmental sanitation 2007, 85% of the rural population will have fresh water, 70% houses will have hygienic toilets, 70% breeders will have sanitary breeding facilities, and all kindergaterns, schools, markets, and the hamlets’ head offices will have fresh water and hygienic toilet by 2010.

In the 1999-2006 period, 16,300 works had been built, providing fresh water for rural people. Also, 145,517 houses had toilets, in which there were biogas-used works or waste treatment areas cutting down the environmental pollution.

• Reported by Tien Sy
• Translated by Hong Quang