Every day 556,000 cubic meters of clean water are wasted

Xinxing Pipes won the contract in March by offering a low price

Waste is being dumped straight into rivers and canals while the city's water plants still use inadequate technology    

Demand can exceed one million cubic meters a day while the capacity is not increasing

They will add 3,900 MW to the national capacity of around 25,000 MW

Questions keep arising over the quality of the new pipes to be supplied by a Chinese company  

The current fiberglass has broken 17 times since 2012, affecting tens of thousands of families

The pipe was supposed to work for 50 years but it has reportedly broken 17 times since 2012

The $70-million system has kept breaking since 2012, cutting thousands of households from water

Districts 1 and 2, where many foreigners live, will have no water for eight hours starting Saturday night

EVN and coal mining group Vinacomin have reported losses worth tens of millions of dollars each

The new rates for household customers will range between VND6,869 and VND18,318 a cubic meter

The city now can provide water to only one of its central districts every day

Power plants can sell directly to industrial parks and large factories under the plan

Around 70,000 families in the city are left without clean water once again