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HANOI, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam targets to have all rural residents nationwide to get at least 60 liters of clean water each per day by 2020 under the National Target Program for Rural Water and Sanitation, according to Director of the National Center for Clean Water and Rural Environment Sanitation Le Thieu Son on Tuesday.
Speaking at a workshop in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Tuesday, Son said that his center will focus on transferring suitable technologies in the field to localities and areas vulnerable to climate change and natural calamities, quoted Vietnam's state-run news agency VNA.
Technical support for investors in the field and assistance to households in installing water treatment devices to improve water quality will also be focused, he added.
According to the center, there are 16,220 collective clean water supply projects in rural areas across the country. As of 2015, some 86 percent of rural people had access to sanitary water. The proportion of rural people using water that meets national safety standards was 45 percent while 65 percent of rural households had hygienic toilet facilities. Enditem
