HCMC – Malaysia’s Green Water Investment Company has just proposed to the HCMC Department of Transport a project to build a water plant in the outlying district of Cu Chi with a daily processing output of 300,000 cubic meters.
Tran The Ky, deputy director of the transport department, told the Daily on Tuesaday that the proposal was just the initial one submitted by the Malaysian company. A detailed development plan and the total cost estimate for the project have not been mentioned in the proposal, he said.
Ky did not say whether the department would support the project, but said the city would upgrade existing water supply facilities to meet the rising demand.
“Between now and 2015, the city will focus on the third-phase expansion of the BOO Thu Duc water plant and the second-phase of Tan Hiep water plant to raise capacity by 300,000 cubic meters a day,” he said.
In the next five years, the city will also make a study on building a water collection station to tap water from the Dong Nai River and the Dau Tieng Reservoir. Therefore, the project proposed by the Malaysian firm should be considered for the period after 2015, Ky noted.
Current water supply in the city is 1.35 million cubic meters, but the supply will rise to 1.8 million cubic meters by the end of this year when expansion projects on the BOO Thu Duc and Kenh Dong water plants are completed.
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