It is set to increase the plant’s productivity, enabling it to produce 300,000 m 3 of drinking water per day, benefitting 1.5 million Ho Chi Minh City inhabitants or 15 percent of the city’s population.

The expanded plant draws water from the Saigon river and plays a crucial role in ensuring the residents of Ho Chi Minh City have access to clean water supply.

In order to meet the increasing demand for clean water, Saigon Water Corporation, the government organization responsible for domestic and business water supply services in Ho Chi Minh City, brought Xylem in to work on an expansion of the Tan Hiep Water Treatement Plant. Yet, the southern Vietnam city’s main sources of water are often polluted by discharges from residential areas, hospitals, factories, waterway transport vessels, farms, and even garbage dumps. In Ho Chi Minh City, roughly 12 million people depend on the Dong Nai and Saigon rivers for a steady supply of clean water for domestic and industrial uses. As part of the Vietnam Development Goals set in 2010, the government aims to provide 90 percent of the urban population with access to safe drinking water and at collecting and treating 100 percent of the urban wastewater by 2020.

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