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Bridge – There are nearly 200 rivers,
lakes and other waterways in Hanoi, compared with the green lungs that helped
bring fresh air to the capital city. However, with the urbanization boom, the
lungs have become no longer green.
The natural garbage can
Except
for some big lakes in the central area of Hanoi such as Hoan Kiem, West Lake,
Thien Quang or Bay Mau, which have been rescued by very costly projects, a lot
of other rivers, canals and lakes in Hanoi have fallen into terrible
conditions.
The people
living near the Dam Hong, Ha Dinh, Phuong Liet lakes in Thanh Xuan district, or
Tam Trinh Lake in Hoang Mai district and Linh Quang lake in Dong Da district
have fallen ill because they have to inhale the terrible smell risen from the
lakes full of garbage, construction waste and black water.
Meanwhile,
the people living along the Lang Road, where the To Lich river runs across, or
on Kim Nguu and Kim Giang streets, where there is the Kim Nguu river, have
suffered a constant anxiety that they would fall sick one day, because they
have been living together with the pollution for the last many years.
In Ba
Dinh district, a “black water village” has been taking shape and existing for
the last 10 years. The village is the “confluence” of the two dirty canals in
three wards of Kim Ma, Lieu Giai and Cong Vi. The waste water from local
households and some workshops has been discharged to the canal which has turned
dense and dark. The smell from the canal here is even more terrible than that
on the Kim Nguu or To Lich rivers’ areas.
In
2011, the Center for Environment Community and Research CECR released a report,
showing that only 2 percent of the rivers, lakes and ponds in Hanoi could meet
the standards, while the others all had been seriously polluted.
Especially,
CECR compared the polluted waterways as the natural garbage can with 90 percent
of domestic waste discharged directly to the rivers and lakes.
People fear craft villages, dread industrial
zones
According
to Senior Lieutenant Colonel Le Van Tam, from the Hanoi Police, there are two
main reasons that lead to the water resource pollution – the domestic waste
water and industrial waste water.
“It’s
nearly impossible to control domestic waste. And it’s also impossible to
control the waste water from agencies, schools… Very few units have waste water
treatment system of their own,” he said.
In
2011, the environment police, joining forces with local authorities, discovered
and punished violators in 100 cases. It is estimated that concentrated waste treatment
systems have not been set up in more than 60 percent of industrial zones. These
include Sai Dong B, Quoc Oai, Noi Bai, Viet Ha and Thanh Oai.
Meanwhile,
craft villages have also become a big environment polluter. The villages gather
the households which carry out small scale business with low investment capital
and do not have financial capability to build waste water treatment system. As
a result, the waste water is directly discharged to the lakes and rivers.
The
toxic industrial waste water, plus domestic waste, is gradually killing the
surface water resources in the city. Environmentalists have warned that the
Nhue River may become a second Kim Nguu or To Lich River, since it is getting
dirtier in recent years, if the city does not take any actions to protect it.
In
fact, Hanoi has spent a lot of money to clean the city’s environment. However,
the money has been used only for some big lakes in the central area of the
city.
Source:
Gia Dinh
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