Continue to invest in clean water in rural areas.

Provincial Party Committee member, Vice Chairwoman of Dong Nai Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thi Hoang chaired the meeting. Photo: B.Nguyen

As of December 2025, the rate of rural households in Dong Nai province using hygienic water reached 100%; the rate of households using clean water meeting standards was 79%, using water from centralized water supply works reached 43%, from household water supply works and water filtration equipment reached 36%.

As a result of investment in rural clean water infrastructure in the 2021-2025 period, Dong Nai province (old) has implemented the investment and construction of 26 clean water supply projects in rural areas. Of which, 15 projects have been completed and put into use, 11 projects are completing procedures for project preparation. The total length of water supply pipelines connecting and expanding the water supply scope from centralized water supply projects is 1,048km. The total investment cost for water supply projects is more than 2.3 trillion VND.

Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Dong Nai province Vo Van Dinh reported at the meeting. Photo: B.Nguyen

The rate of rural households in the old Binh Phuoc province using clean water reached 100%. In the period of 2021-2025, the old Binh Phuoc province did not invest in rural clean water infrastructure from the budget. Water supply enterprises in the province have invested in about 320km of water supply pipes for more than 5,800 households.

Up to now, Dong Nai province (old) has 91 rural centralized water supply works, including 52 works in operation and 39 works inactive. Binh Phuoc province (old) has 48 works, including 32 works in operation and 16 works inactive.

The current difficulty is that most water supply enterprises have not been assigned specific water supply areas, leading to difficulties in developing long-term investment plans for the units. Infrastructure planning is not synchronized, leading to slow implementation of some projects. Some areas are stuck in planning, so it is impossible to invest in water supply infrastructure to serve the people. The unit price of clean water after appraisal and approval is still high compared to the income of rural people...

Representative of a business in Dau Giay commune investing in a rural clean water supply project, speaking at the meeting. Photo: B.Nguyen

In the 2026-2030 period, regarding investment in rural clean water infrastructure, Dong Nai province will continue to implement transitional projects from 2025; invest in 10 new projects, providing water to about 137,200 people with an investment cost of more than VND 680.7 billion. In addition, the province will continue to invest in upgrading, repairing and expanding water supply routes with a total cost of more than VND 2.5 trillion.

Representatives of enterprises investing in water supply projects in Binh Long ward expressed their opinions at the meeting. Photo: B.Nguyen

Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thi Hoang emphasized: The province's target by 2030 is that the rate of rural households using clean water that meets standards is 85%, of which water from centralized water supply works reaches 68%, from household water supply works and water filtration equipment reaches 17%. To achieve this goal, there is a lot of work to do. We request the Department of Construction and the Department of Agriculture and Environment to review all planned rural clean water supply works to update the province's planning.

The province will have a separate directive document requesting wards and communes to review the centralized water supply projects in the area to see if they are suitable; zoning in investment, if there are already projects, it is necessary to avoid overlapping investment. This is an investment planning problem, where there are none, call for investment, where there are sparsely populated areas, support people to install household water filters. Assign the Department of Agriculture and Environment to review the water reservoirs in the province, any reservoir that reduces the need for agricultural irrigation water should be regulated through domestic water, increasing the efficiency of the reservoirs.

Regarding the province's clean water investment plan for the 2026-2030 period, the Department of Agriculture and Environment will coordinate with the Department of Construction to complete this plan based on practical comments from wards and communes.

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