City launches water plant into operation

A view of Thu Duc water plant - Photo: Anh Quan

HCMC – Thu Duc Water BOO Corp. on Monday began commissioning a long-awaited water treatment plant, thus easing the chronic shortage of running water in some parts of districts 7, 8 and Nha Be.

The plant will be able to supply 300,000 cubic meters of water a day for residents in the three districts.

This is the first water project in the city developed under BOO (build-operate-own) form with the total cost of over VND1.7 trillion. The project includes a water pumping station in Dong Nai Province and a treatment plant in HCMC’s Thu Duc District.

Saigon Water Corp., or Sawaco, has completed 25.7 kilometers of water pipe for the project, starting from Thu Duc and running through districts 9, 2, 4, 7 and 8 to Ba Chiem Bridge in Nha Be District.

The enterprise will extend the pipeline system in the future to supply more running water for Thu Duc, Binh Thanh and Go Vap districts.

Ly Chung Dan, Sawaco deputy general director, said Sawaco will distribute water from Tan Hiep water plant to districts 4 and 8 to supply water for districts 12, Binh Tan and Cu Chi.

Construction of the project began in 2005 with the capital initially estimated at over VND1.5 trillion. It is invested by the consortium of HCMC Infrastructure Investment Joint Stock Company and Vietnam Development Bank.

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M’sian firm wants to build water supply plant in city

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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