By 2015, 85% of the rural population will enjoy safe water and 100% of schools and medical stations in rural areas have enough safe water to use.

Highland children enjoy safe water. Photo: Dantri newspaper

This is the target set in the national program on safe water and rural environmental sanitation for the 2012-2015 period, which has been adopted by the Prime Minister.

Under the program, concentrated water supply construction projects in extremely disadvantaged communes can receive maximum assistance of 90% from the central budget.

The program will be carried out with the mobilization of VND 27.6 trillion from diverse sources./.