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| Locals wash with clean water in Cu Gut District in the central province of Dak Nong. |
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Watching his son frolic, Dieu N'ky smiled and said this year in the dry season his family and neighbours do not have to worry about a water shortage following the installation of a new supply system in Quang Tin Commune.
"The health of everyone in my family has become better," he said, explaining his son no longer felt itchy and slept better at night.
In the past they had to fetch water from a river or stream five kilometres from the village, and they were not even clean, he said.
At the end of last year the province Center for Rural Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation built a pumping station that supplies 200cu.m of water daily at a cost of VND4 billion (US$191,400).
Forty out of the village's 52 families now got water from this, Pham Van Hai, the chief of the local People's Committee Secretariat, said.
The remaining families would get water this year, he said.
In Dak Ru Commune too 128 out of 150 families have been getting clean water since the centre installed a supply system at a cost of VND4 billion at the beginning of last year.
Local authorities have petitioned the province administration to double the supply capacity.
This is a story that has been repeated in many communes in the province which has spent nearly VND150 billion ($7.2 million) to ensure 75 per cent of all residents have access to clean water, according to the People's Committee.
V.N.S
(MONRE, 16/2/2011)