A Japanese expert was so confident about the Japanese bio-nanotechnology treatment in Hanoi’s polluted To Lich River that he took a swim.

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

 VietNamNet Bridge – The water environment in the world-renowned Ha Long Bay has been under tremendous pressure from the growing socio-economic activities in the area.

VietNamNet Bridge - As state and local budgets are limited, calling for private investment in waste water treatment is considered the most feasible solution for now. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Two students in Can Tho City are using waste from seafood processing factories to create microbiological sludge to grow safe vegetables and ornamental flowers. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pak Viet Nam Company from the southern province of Dong Nai has been caught red-handed discharging black substance – suspected to be wastewater – into Thi Vai river.

VietNamNet Bridge - The increase in the number of big farms which do outsourcing for CP Group has contributed to serious pollution in many localities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Head of the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Legal Department, Dau Anh Tuan, spoke to Hai Quan (Customs) newspaper about legal regulations that affect local enterprises.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Trash collection in Ha Noi has become a nuisance and caused serious pollution, according to residents who have complained about the trash collection schedule and its proximity to their homes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of kilograms of dead fish were brought to the headquarters of the People's Committee in coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, in a protest against river pollution yesterday morning (Sept 7).

 Severe flooding in northern Quang Ninh Province was a result of years of substandard coal mining in the area, experts said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Serious pollution in the Vam Co Dong River is the main reason for heavy losses to fish farmers in Tay Ninh Province, local environmental authorities have confirmed.

Eighty percent of 900 households in Khoai village earn their living recycling plastics. In the village, there are 100 companies and 400 small establishments specializing in recycling waste. Locals have been recycling for 20 years.

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and the Environment has imposed a fine of VND6.3 billion, the highest ever, on Hao Duong, a leather company, for discharging untreated waste water into the environment.

 Massive injections of wastewater from the oil and gas industry are likely to have triggered a sharp rise in earthquakes in the state of Oklahoma.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi residents in many districts have complained about environmental pollution caused by rubbish collection and transport, during recent meetings with National Assembly deputies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Committee has released a regulation on wastewater zoning and wastewater standards with stricter requirements than the ones currently in force in the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Wastewater and gas discharged from the Dung Quat Oil Refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai did not cause environmental pollution,

 VietNamNet Bridge – As local authorities keep silent, people nowadays tend to go their way to punish polluting factories.