Ensuring clean water for poor households.

To promote the goal of multidimensional poverty reduction, limit re-poverty and prevent new poverty, Phu Ninh district has continued to leverage the strength of the entire political system to participate in poverty reduction efforts. In particular, ensuring access to clean water for poor, near-poor, and newly-escaped-from-poverty households has been a priority, achieving many positive results.

Thanks to loans from the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Credit Program, the percentage of households in Phu Ninh with access to clean water is steadily increasing.

Recognizing that ensuring access to clean water for the people and maintaining rural environmental hygiene are crucial factors in protecting health and improving living conditions, the district has focused on directing relevant departments and units to actively integrate and promote information dissemination to change people's perceptions and encourage them to voluntarily register for the use of clean water in daily life and production, replacing traditional groundwater and rainwater sources, thereby contributing to health protection. Water supply units must ensure the people's needs in terms of quantity and quality, preventing water shortages or interruptions, especially for households eligible for social policies, poor households, near-poor households, and newly-escaped-from-poverty households.

To increase the percentage of households, especially poor, near-poor, and newly-escaped-from-poverty households, that have access to and use clean water for daily life, the district directs relevant departments and units to pay close attention to this issue regularly, as it is an important criterion in building new rural areas and multidimensional poverty reduction. Access to clean, hygienic water will contribute to protecting the health of each individual and the community, and improving the quality of life.

Ms. Tran Thi Tien, residing in Zone 6, Phu Nham commune, stated: “Previously, my family was a poor household, using a toilet that did not meet environmental hygiene standards, affecting our health. In 2022, I received a loan of 20 million VND under the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Credit Program of the Social Policy Bank branch in the district. Thanks to this, my family was able to build a complete and integrated water supply and sanitation system, ensuring clean water for the whole family.”

According to Comrade Nguyen Manh Tien - Director of the District Branch of the Social Policy Bank, in recent years, the District Branch of the Social Policy Bank has closely coordinated with local authorities, associations, and organizations entrusted with the task of promoting the implementation of the Rural Sanitation and Environmental Protection Credit Program according to Decision No. 62/2004/QD-TTg dated April 16, 2004, of the Prime Minister on credit for implementing the National Strategy on Rural Sanitation and Environmental Protection, supporting rural households to improve and enhance their quality of life. The unit has actively appraised and provided loans for 11 credit programs in the area, with a total outstanding loan balance of VND 123.8 billion under the Rural Sanitation and Environmental Protection Program, benefiting nearly 6,000 households. In the first 10 months of 2024 alone, outstanding loans under the Program reached VND 21.39 billion with 1,150 borrowing households, resulting in the renovation and construction of 2,300 rural sanitation and environmental protection projects. This included loans to 39 poor households (VND 3 billion), 56 near-poor households (VND 4.24 billion), and 36 newly-escaped-poverty households (VND 3.29 billion)...

Preferential credit funding not only contributes to improving the environment and enhancing the quality of life for the people, but also becomes a powerful "assistant," helping localities in the district fulfill environmental criteria in the process of building new rural areas, laying the groundwork for building advanced and model new rural areas. Clean water supply projects have sufficient capacity to meet the needs of all 17 communes and towns. The percentage of rural population using hygienic water has reached nearly 100%, contributing to ensuring health, reducing the poverty rate annually, and improving the quality of life for the people.

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Source: https://baophutho.vn/dam-bao-nuoc-sach-cho-ho-ngheo-222508.htm