Filling up a well in HCM City's Hoc Mon district. (Photo: nhandan.com.vn) HCM City (VNS/VNA) – The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City is taking measures to restrict groundwater exploitation, which has led to increased water pollution, flooding and subsidence. Many households and organisations have exceeded the permitted exploitation level, and the city now has an average subsidence rate of 4 centimetres a year, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment . Tan Binh district's An Lac ward, for instance, has subsided 81.4 centimetres over the past 12 years, the highest rate in the southern region. The city aims to reduce the quantity of groundwater exploitation to 100,000 cu.m a day by 2025. To protect groundwater, the city has been filling up wells that are damaged, unused or unlicensed. It has also encouraged households to fill up wells in areas where there is clean tap water. In areas where the quality of groundwater does not meet standards, the city will encourage households to use tap water. The city's Department of Natural Resources and Environment plans to stop granting licenses to 151 groundwater exploitation works that belong to companies, industrial parks and export processing zones. These works exploit a total of 62,860 cu.m of water a day. Along with construction projects built on weak… Read full this story
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