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Dong Nai province strict with polluting IZs
The managing board of industrial zones (IZs) in southern Dong Nai province has announced that IZs lacking waste water treatment systems would not be licensed for operation from January 1, 2009.
According to the vice chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, Ao Van Thinh, local authorities will assist IZ developers in building concentrated waste water treatment systems and dealing with obstacles in ground clearance, capital and other issues.
He also asserted that from early 2009 the province will suspend operation of any IZ developer that has not invested in a waste water treatment system.
The province’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment is taking samples from local IZs and will announce pollution levels in the mass media.
According to the department, there are now 21 operational IZs in Dong Nai, discharging about 68,000 cu.m of waste water every day.
However, only nine among them have built concentrated waste water treatment systems to treat 21,000 cu.m.
Thus more than two thirds of every day’s waste water volume from the local IZs are poured directly into the environment.
VNA
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