The volume of domestic waste water continues to rise, especially in populous areas, challenging management agencies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mass fish deaths along rivers in the southernmost province of Ca Mau have recurred in Dam Doi District, the local People’s Committee reported yesterday.

The mass fish deaths on the La Nga River days ago might have been prevented if an IoT water & air monitoring system had been applied, according to Phan Dinh The Duy from the HCM City University of Science & Technology.

More than 2,000 large rivers with 10 kilometers or longer in Vietnam are being threatened by untreated waste water from households, industrial production and craft villages.

If Vietnam does not change its way of developing its economy, it could be listed among the world’s top 10 countries with high pollution by 2035 and surpass China in pollution levels, economists have warned.

Thanh Hoa Province on Monday fined a company VND160 million (US$7,100) for illegally discharging untreated sewage into the Am River, causing mass fish deaths last week.

HCM City Urban Environment Company workers spent Tuesday morning collecting dead fish and spreading chemicals to avoid possible pollution on the city’s Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though Formosa Ha Tinh has fixed 85 percent of the problems, experts are still worried about its coke-quenching technology and undersea discharge system.

Mass fish deaths in the central region. Environmental accidents in many localities. Despite these events, people do not receive support from local authorities, though they must pay many environment taxes and fees.

VietNamNet Bridge - About 2,000 tons of seafood products remain unsold in Quang Binh province because of recent incidents that sullied the environment. 

MONRE says that Formosa is about to begin operating six out of 23 chimneys on a trial basis. Experts have warned that the spread of toxic gas will cause serious pollution if the emissions are not strictly supervised.

VietNamNet Bridge - Formosa, the Taiwanese investor, which is building a steel complex in Vung Ang Economic Zone in Ha Tinh province, plans to build an oil refinery in the second phase of the project development.

VietNamNet Bridge - None of the waste treatment plants in Ha Tinh province has technology that is advanced enough to treat hazardous industrial waste, according to the Ha Tinh Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government late last month announced the results of a preliminary investigation into the massive fish deaths in four central provinces of Viet Nam, with Formosa being the culprit.

Experts believe that environmental problems exist in nearly all coastal industrial zones (IZs), not just in Vung Ang IZ, where a serious environmental incident occurred two months ago, causing mass fish deaths in four central provinces.

 Director of the Institute of Oceanography, Vo Si Tuan, talks with Tien Phong Newspaper about possible measures to restore the marine ecosystem in four central provinces that have been affected by the mass fish deaths.

VietNamNet Bridge - Taiwanese Formosa was welcomed warmly when it arrived in Vietnam 15 years ago as a major foreign investor with multi-billion dollar projects. But it has been involved in many scandals.

VietNamNet Bridge - The mass fish deaths on Hoang Cau Lake in Hanoi have ring the alarm over the serious pollution in lakes and rivers in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - If Vietnam does not tighten control over licensing of foreign invested projects, it will have to pay a heavy environmental price for foreign direct investment (FDI), experts say.