HANOI (Reuters) - Pollution is making water from rivers near Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City practically unusable as economic development overtakes Vietnam's efforts to protect the waterways, environmental experts say.
In the first report of its kind on two northern river basins and one in the south, a government ministry said this week that waste water from industrial, medical and domestic sources was being discharged directly into rivers.
"The surface water in Hanoi is so polluted it is not at all suitable for agriculture uses and absolutely not available for domestic use," said Helene Bjerre Jordans, counselor for environment and culture at the embassy of Denmark in Hanoi.
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