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Residents struggle to live with polluted water

HÀ NỘI — Just on the outskirts of the capital city, the people of Tân Minh Co妹妹une in Sóc Sơn District have struggled for decades with polluted water.

To ensure water for everyday use, Nguyễn Thị Tĩnh’s family has had to set up two water filtration systems. Even then, it takes one more filtering process for the water to become drinkable.

Their ‘homemade’ filtration system is lined with sponge, sand, and rock. Raw water will go through these layers, then is pumped to a tank to let the sediment settle.

Yet even when the filters turn yellow and the sediment is left to settle for days, this water still has black specks and a pungent smell. 

Tĩnh said: “Water coming from this system can only be used to wash raw vegetables and other stuff, as it still has a very strong smell.

“For drinking and showering, we need to filter it one more time with the purification machine.”

Her husband, Đinh Ngọc Đạt said that they had been living like this since  一 九 七 二 when they first moved here, but in all that time, nothing had changed.

It is not easy to drill wells in this area. The family has a  七 二-metre-deep well, but not much water is coming out. Right next door, one of their neighbours just drilled  八0 metres into the ground but couldn't find any water.

“We just want to have clean water,"大众said Đạt. 

" 六0 per cent of the people here are senior citizens, and years of using contaminated water have taken a toll on their health and life expectancy.”

Not every household can afford a filtration system either. According to Vũ Mạnh Hùng, head of Residential area no.  四 一 八 in the co妹妹une, there are more than  二00 households with a population of  六00, but around  一00 families are without a water purification system.

For these households, they have to pump the polluted water from the well to the tank for daily use. These tanks need cleaning every seven to ten days as they collect a huge amount of gunk and sediment. 

Hùng said: “My family also run the water through the filtration system before use, but brushing teeth and washing our face with this stinky water is really unbearable, it also affects our health and daily life.

“If we don’t change the sponge in the filter, it will harden after just one or two months and won’t let the water go through.”