The Department of Agriculture and Environment of Can Tho City has just issued a document requesting the People's Committees of communes and wards to coordinate in organizing people's meetings, strengthening propaganda and mobilizing people to participate in using clean water from centralized water supply projects that have been invested from the state budget.
According to the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Can Tho City, the Project of Water Storage and Domestic Water Supply System in areas with polluted water sources, water scarcity areas, and areas affected by saltwater intrusion is assigned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to the Soc Trang Provincial Clean Water and Rural Environmental Sanitation Center (old) as the investor to implement in the period 2024 - 2025.
Before the official merger with the Center for Clean Water and Rural Environmental Sanitation of Can Tho City, on December 15, 2025, the project investor, the Center for Clean Water and Rural Environmental Sanitation of Soc Trang province (old), completed a number of projects under the project. However, after the project was completed, the number of households participating in using clean water was still low compared to the total number of households existing throughout the project on the invested water supply pipelines.
Statistics show that in 15 newly built or upgraded and expanded water supply projects with a total pipeline network length of more than 96 km, there are 3,066 households on the pipeline, but only 971 households have registered to use clean water.
Notably, at the centralized water supply project in An Thanh Nam commune (now Cu Lao Dung commune), the transmission pipeline is more than 7.7km long, passing through 231 households, but only 4 households registered to use clean water. At the project to upgrade and expand the water supply system in Dai An 1 commune (now Cu Lao Dung commune), the pipeline is nearly 9km long, passing through 385 households, but so far no household has participated in using it.
Similarly, the project to upgrade and expand the inter-communal water supply system Lai Hoa - Vinh Hiep (now Lai Hoa commune and Khanh Hoa ward) has 201 households located on a 6.2km long pipeline but no households have connected to use clean water.
Meanwhile, some localities recorded higher usage rates. In Nhon My commune (formerly An My commune), 200/232 households on the route registered to use clean water. Thoi An Hoi commune has 300/354 households using it. In Tai Van commune, 85/120 households have been connected to the centralized water supply system.
According to the Department of Agriculture and Environment, these are domestic water supply projects serving people in particularly difficult areas, coastal areas, areas affected by saltwater intrusion, drought, and water shortage; and at the same time meeting the recommendations of voters, people and local authorities.
To promote the investment efficiency of the project, the Department of Agriculture and Environment proposed that the People's Committees of communes and wards within the project area coordinate with the Center for Clean Water and Rural Environmental Sanitation of Can Tho City to coordinate in organizing people's meetings and propaganda to encourage the community to participate in using clean water. In which, implement a policy of free water meter installation for poor households with land use right certificates, policy families (Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, families of wounded soldiers, martyrs); reduce 50% of the cost of installing water meters for near-poor households.
