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Decision No. 237/1998/QD-TTg approving of the National Target Program for Clean Water and Environmental Hygiene in Rural Areas.

Country/Territory
Viet Nam
Document type
Regulation
Date
1998
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Công Báo No. 1, 8 January, 1999, pp. 24-25.
Subject
Water
Keyword
Subsidy/incentive Water supply Pollution control Freshwater pollution Institution
Geographical area
Asia, East Asian Seas, South-Eastern Asia
Abstract

This Decision of the Prime Minister approves the National Target Program for Clean Water and Environmental Hygiene in rural areas, defines the main objectives of that Program, provides for capital resources for the implementation of the Program, and assigns tasks relative to its implementation to various Ministries and local authorities. The objectives of the program are to: 1) provide by the year 2000 to at least forty-five percent of the population with clean water and to improve environmental hygiene, giving priority to specified rural areas; 2) supply by the year 2005 clean water to eighty percent of the population and to provide households with toilets, and to treat at least thirty percent of farm and animal waste, and; 3) to contribute to water resource conservation and protection of quality thereof.

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Implemented by

Decision No. 123/1999/QD-BNN-TCCB promulgating the Regulation on operation of the Management Board and Standing Office of the National Target Program for Rural Clean Water and Environmental Hygiene.

Legislation | Viet Nam | 1999

Keyword: Subsidy/incentive, Water supply, Institution, Environmental planning, Freshwater pollution, Pollution control, Policy/planning

Source: FAO, FAOLEX