City Needy to Get Tap Water Next Year

Around 20,000 poor residents in Ho Chi Minh City will be able to access clean water next year under a 249,000-euro (US$366,000) project funded by Dutch organization Water for Life Fund (WFL). According to an agreement recently signed between WFL and Saigon Water Corporation (Sawaco), the former will donate the money to build tap-water distribution networks in some poor areas of the city’s District 8 and Binh Tan District. Sawaco will construct pipes and facilities for distributing tap water in the two districts where people have been grappling with water shortage for many years. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of March 2010