Ensuring clean water for poor households

Promoting the implementation of multidimensional poverty reduction goals, limiting poverty relapse and poverty emergence, in recent times, Phu Ninh district has continued to promote the strength of the entire political system to participate in poverty reduction work, in which ensuring clean water for poor, near-poor and newly escaped poverty households has been focused on, achieving many positive results.

Thanks to loans from the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Credit Program, the rate of households in Phu Ninh using clean water is increasing.

Identifying that ensuring people's need for clean water and maintaining rural environmental sanitation are important factors in protecting health and improving living conditions for people, the district focuses on directing relevant departments and units to actively integrate and promote information and propaganda to help people change their awareness, voluntarily register to use clean water in daily life and production, replacing traditional underground water sources and rainwater, contributing to health protection. Water supply units must ensure people's needs in terms of quantity and quality, and prevent water shortages and water loss, especially for policy beneficiaries, poor households, near-poor households, and newly escaped-poverty households.

To increase the rate of households, especially poor, near-poor and newly escaped poverty households, having access to and using clean water in daily life, the district directs relevant departments and units to regularly pay close attention, because this is an important criterion in building new rural areas and reducing multidimensional poverty. Access to clean and hygienic water will contribute to protecting the health of each person and community, improving the quality of life.

Ms. Tran Thi Tien in Zone 6, Phu Nham Commune said: “Previously, my family was a poor household, using toilets that did not meet environmental hygiene standards, affecting our health. In 2022, I was able to borrow 20 million VND under the Rural Clean Water and Environmental Sanitation (NS&VSMT) Credit Program of the District Social Policy Bank (CSXH) Transaction Office, thanks to which my family was able to build a synchronous, closed NS&VSMT project, ensuring clean water for the whole family.”

According to comrade Nguyen Manh Tien - Director of the District Social Policy Bank Transaction Office, in recent years, the District Social Policy Bank Transaction Office has closely coordinated with authorities at all levels, associations and organizations entrusted to promote propaganda work to implement the Rural Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Credit Program according to Decision No. 62/2004/QD-TTg dated April 16, 2004 of the Prime Minister on credit to implement the National Strategy on rural water supply and sanitation, supporting rural households to improve and enhance the quality of life. The unit has actively appraised and lent capital to 11 credit programs in the area, of which the total outstanding loan balance for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program is 123.8 billion VND with nearly 6,000 households borrowing capital. In the 10 months of 2024 alone, the outstanding loan balance of the Program reached 21.39 billion VND with 1,150 households borrowing, renovating and building 2,300 new rural water and sanitation works, including 39 poor households with 3 billion VND, 56 near-poor households with 4.24 billion VND, 36 newly escaped poverty households with 3.29 billion VND...

Preferential credit capital not only contributes to improving the environment and improving the quality of life of the people but also becomes a powerful "assistant", helping localities in the district to complete environmental criteria in the process of building new rural areas, creating a premise for building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas. Clean water supply works have enough capacity to supply water for the needs of 17/17 communes and towns. The proportion of rural population using clean water reaches nearly 100%, contributing to ensuring health, reducing the annual poverty rate, and improving the quality of life of the people.

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