Press Release: VBSP support water supply and rural sanitation for community health

Over the past eight years, the credit program on water supply and rural sanitation (WSRSS) has supported millions of households in the whole country to access loans for investing, upgrading and renewing WSRSS constructions in accordance with the national standard on WSRSS.

 Household of Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet in Binh Ba hamlet, Cam Binh commune when borrowing loans from clean water and rural sanitation

The WSRSS credit program brought about essential effectiveness on the environment and living standard for residents in locality, responding with the campaign on building new rural areas for community health.

In previous years, the household of Nguyen Huy Thinh in hamlet 1, Nghi Hop commune, Nghi Loc district (Nghe An province) regularly used unsafe well water due to environmental pollution such as dirty water resource from rivers, lakes, animal waste and sewage etc.

In the past year, Thinh borrowed 12 million dongs from the WSRSS credit program in VBSP. Adding with his own funds, he built a synchronous and closed construction of WSRSS which includes bathroom, toilet, water purification tank, water tank to ensure enough living water for the whole family. Moreover, he developed an economic VAC model, biogas system to take advantage of animal sewage for produce gorillas.

Not only in Nghe an, right in Quang Binh, the local authority also concerned on the community health, especially in rural and remote areas. For instance, over 63% households accessed WSRSS loans in the mountainous district of Minh Hoa. Since developing the WSRSS construction, residents have used safe water instead of using unsafe water from rivers or ravines in the past.

Currently, the rate of rural households using safe water reaches more than 84%. The number of rural households having standard WSRSS constructions reaches more than 63%. After 8 years of WSRSS implementation, VBSP expanded the model to 63/63 provinces with total loan portfolio of over 20 thousand dongs for over 4 million turns of customers to build 7 million WSRSS constructions.