HANOI, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Hanoi capital city will experience running water shortage this summer, and fears that its key pipeline will break again, the municipal Construct Department said on Monday.
Hanoi is estimated to use over 1 million cubic meters of running water a day this summer, while all of its water plants have a combined supplying capacity of more than 900,000 cubic meters.
The capital is predicted to face a daily shortage of 70,000-100,000 cubic meters of running water in mid-summer, and to experience a breaking-up or collapse of parts of the outdated pipeline of Da River Water Supply Plant, which has undergone such an incident 20 times so far.
Construction of a new pipeline started in 2015, but has yet to complete.
At present, four water companies supply running water to nearly 1.2 million households, or 4.6 million people, in Hanoi. The water supply coverage in the city currently stands at 97 percent, and the water loss rate is 21.5 percent.
