The facility helps improve the local people's living conditions in the Dong Van Karst Plateau where water for daily activities is hard to find. (Source: VNA)
Nhan Dan Online/VNA – A facility that can supply clean water for 10,000 people in Dong Van town, of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, was handed over to local authorities on February 28.
The project, which was built in early 2013 with a capacity of 850 cubic metres per day, providing on a daily basis an average of 80 litres of water per person, is seen as the first step in improving the local people’s living conditions in the Dong Van Karst Plateau – one of the most disadvantaged localities in Vietnam where water for daily activities is hard to find.
According to Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Thai Lai, 23 drill holes capable of providing a combined 9,000 cubic metres per day of water, meeting the needs of 100,000 people, were constructed after the ministry’s water resource research and planning centre surveyed the plateau’s needs.
The ministry will continue building similar facilities in other districts in the plateau such as Meo Vac, Quan Ba and Yen Minh to ensure water supply for residents, especially during the dry season.
Dong Van Stone Plateau is home to 250,000 people from 17 different ethnic groups.
The plateau, a member of the Global Network of National Geo-parks since 2010, is 80 % limestone and the fossils of thousands of species of prehistoric creatures from 400-600 million years ago have been found there.
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