The drainage project in the low-lying Tan Hoa-Lo Gom Basin is located in the districts of Tan Binh, Tan Phu and districts 6 and 11, said Nguyen Hoang Nhan, head of the city’s Urban Upgrade Plan.

The 19 sq.km area, which houses 800,000 people and covers the streets of Au Co, Luy Ban Bich, Khuong Viet, Huynh Van Chinh, Huynh Thien Loc, Trinh Dinh Hoa and Hoa Binh, suffers from flooding, traffic jams and air and water pollution.

Once complete by 2011, the World Bank-funded project will help address chronic flooding and improve the traffic infrastructure and living conditions for the area, where many poor people live, he added.

The project is part of a much wider 300 million USD Viet Nam Urban Upgrade Plan that includes six components, to be implemented step by step until 2012.

Preferential loans from the World Bank are also being used for the project, which is being carried out in the cities of Nam Dinh, Can Tho, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh City with the aim of reducing poverty and improving the environment.

(Source: VNA)

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