Vietnam seeks optimal wastewater treatment technology

HCMC – The Ministry of Science and Technology is looking for the best technology for wastewater and garbage treatment in three big cities of Hanoi, HCM, and Danang in response to the fast-rising volume of wastes hazarding the environment, an official said.

Ta Ba Hung, head of the National Agency for Science and Technology Information (Nasati) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that the agency was contacting many companies from Korea, Israel, Switzerland, and Japan to find solutions.

Hung told a forum held by Nasati in HCMC on Sunday to introduce Korean technology that wastewater and garbage treatment technologies in use in above-mentioned countries were deemed the best.

He said that waste volumes from big cities and craft villages in the countryside were becoming larger. Furthermore, the amount of wastes treated by preliminary tools or poorly treated was also on the rise, polluting water sources and igniting strong objection among populace.

After being chosen and applied to the three cities, the best technologies will also be transferred to other localities, especially to craft villages in rural areas nationwide so as to promptly tackle the worsening pollution there, Hung added.

Hanoi, HCMC, and Danang alone dumped some 20,000 tons of domestic wastes in total each day and the waste volume was also rising by around 10% a year, which threatened to pollute the water resource in the three cities.

At the forum, some businesses such as Garnet IC Company, Tae Rim Group, Young Engineering Company, and Korean BCO Company introduced several waste treatment technologies through pyrolysis furnaces and fused plasma as well as some domestic and industrial waste treatment technologies by biological methods currently applied in Korea.