World Bank urges US$9bn investment in Vietnam’s water infrastructure
Only 17.5 percent of the country’s population has access to clean water
Controversy floods Hanoi over government’s plan to spend big on clean water
The city agreed to purchase clean water from a new treatment plant at an unusually high rate on behalf of local distributors, then subsidize those same distributors for a major chunk of the high costs
Suspects arrested in contamination of Hanoi’s water source
Around ten cubic meters of waste matter from a tiles factory was dumped into a water source for Hanoi