Presenting

Actual Situation

1.Water polltution

Water pollution situation in Hanoi is very clearly. In Hanoi, the quantity of waste water from daily activities is directly let out canal, river or irrigation canal. There are many hospitals and chemical site have not got waste water treatment.

In Hanoi, total of sewage is 300,000 to 400,000 m3 /day. Recently, 5/31 chemical facilities have water proposal, amounting to 25% waste water from hospital. About 36/400 manufacture sites have water treatment. The volume of rubbish have not collected is 1,200 m3/day and they are let out the area around the lake, canal in the urban. The BOD index, NH4, NO2, NO3 in water in the city is beyond too much as the acceptation.

According to the 2005 report, the everyday population and industrial factories and cottage industries in Hanoi discharged 300 000 tons of waste water discharged the river each year, the lake is about 3 600 tonnes of organic 317 tonnes of wheat oil, tens of tons of heavy metals, solvents and other metals.

Hanoi's sewage is discharged into a main rivers - the main lakes such as West Lake, Ho Thu Le, To Lich River, Bull River ... stinks, polluted to drinking water in some places in Hanoi .

2.Air pollution

The study evaluated air quality impacts of traffic and other sources in Hanoi concluding that vehicular emissions represent as much as 40 percent of known local emission sources in terms of particulate matter. More specifically, motorcycles, the primary contributors to traffic emissions, contribute 43 percent of total PM emissions, 54.5 percent of carbon monoxide, and 54.1 percent of hydrocarbon and dust in the air in Hanoi exceeded the allowed level many times.

The average annual PM10 concentrations at the station located at the University of Civil Engineering

Results of the survey of 400 industrial facilities are operating in the city shows that: Nearly 200 potential facility discharge of air pollutants

The facility focuses on the construction of industrial...