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As the result of renovation, industrialization and urbanization process, the demand on water resources in both quantity and quality is increasing rapidly in parallel wastewater is mainly untreated before discharging to water source. Therefore, in some areas, water is heavily contaminated, polluted and could not meet the demand of water utilization.
With consideration of Vietnamese Government, efforts of MARD and assistance together with support from International Agencies, the National Assembly of Viet Nam has issued the Law on Water Resources and it come into effect on 1st Jan, 1999. Since the Law enacted, some organization have been established such as National Water Resources Council (NWRC), River Basin Planning Board (RBO) of three biggest river basins such as Red-Thai Binh, Dong Nai and Cuu Long in which integrated water resources management is the one of the most priority in River Basin Management. (See the Annex)
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