For many years, Tan Viet commune (Thanh Ha) has always paid attention to environmental protection and clean water supply to serve the people’s lives.
All three hamlets of Tan Viet commune have garbage collection groups
People’s self-awareness
The province in 2012 assisted Tan Viet commune with the construction of two concentrated landfills in two hamlets of Ngoc Lo and Van Tue.
Cam Lo hamlet, without the province’s support, has also had one landfill dug by the hamlet’s residents themselves, in which all waste in the hamlet is buried.
The commune now has nine dustcarts and four rubbish collection laborers. Each hamlet has a group collecting garbage twice a week. 100% of households in the commune paying for garbage collection at VND1,500/ person/ month.
In addition, for the permanent cleanliness and beauty of the village roads and alleys, associations and unions have coordinated with primary schools and junior high schools to implement “Green Saturdays”.
Early on every Saturday morning, students of the schools and people focus on cleaning the school gate and neighboring areas. Sanitary groups also clear up hedges and bushes, unclog sewers, and remove weeds on the commune and hamlet roads.
Vu Quang Dien in Cam Lo hamlet said, “Environmental sanitation is an indispensable and urgent deed to ensure the health of the people themselves.”
“For nearly 10 years, the commune and hamlets have maintained the community sanitation to ensure a healthy environment and raise the people’s awareness,” he added.
At present, scattered breeding in Tan Viet’s residential areas is negligible. Four big breeding farms in the commune have been moved to concentrated breeding areas, mostly shifted regions.
There are wastewater treatment systems ensuring regulations in all of the farms. Therefore, the village air is always fresh.
Besides, the Tan Viet commune Women’s Union in June 2012 had a chance to participate in the Project “Community Hygiene Output-Based Aid – CHOBA”. This was a project carried out by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women’s Union and the East Meets West organization (the US) to assist disadvantaged members with the construction of sanitary toilets.
To date, 239 households have benefited from the project with an amount of VND560,000/ household, bringing the total number of households having sanitary toilets in the commune to 95%.
The clean water supply factory in the commune was completed and put into use in May 2013.
Over 97% of households across the commune have had access to clean water. The rest are mostly in shifted regions, where water pipelines have not yet been installed.
Tan Viet nowadays is a fresh countryside without smoke and dust. All roads are clean. The sound of gong signaling garbage collection in villages has entered the people’s subconscious and become a habit that not every locality can do.
Authorities’ close direction
All three hamlets of Cam Lo, Ngoc Lo, and Van Tue have held meetings in 16 areas to propagandize, mobilize the people to participate in environmental protection.
Hung across village roads and alleys are such slogans on environmental protection as “Protecting the environment is the entire society’s responsibility”; “Joining hands to protect the green, clean, and beautiful environment”; “Let’s maintain hygiene, do not throw garbage to roads”; “The environment today, the life tomorrow”; “Water is life’s blood”; “Protecting the environment is protecting the human health”; etc.
Moreover, Tan Viet commune leaders have actively advised higher authorities, welcomed clean water supply projects, and built concentrated landfills in localities, practically serving the people’s lives.
In addition to the days when the whole people simultaneously organize cleaning, each family must have a landfill for essential demands and sort garbage before burying.
The commune People’s Committee has required households with large-scale breeding to move to concentrated breeding areas, away from residential areas, with wastewater treatment systems ensuring environmental protection.
“Environmental protection is a matter of long-term strategy. Determining that it is difficult to meet the environment criterion in the National Target Program on new countryside construction, Tan Viet commune has gradually overcome difficulties to well perform, strive to fulfill the criterion in 2014,” said Nguyen Tuan Tuyen, Chairman of Tan Viet commune People’s Committee.
“However, the existing landfills are merely sites for burying waste without treatment. Levels and branches should research on supporting localities with waste treatment technology, both protecting the environment and saving burying land,” he elaborated.
MINH NGUYET
Đăng ký: VietNam News