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Article: VIETNAM-ENVIRONMENT: HEAPS OF WASTE LEAVE HANOI IN A MESS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- January 9, 1996
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Andrew Nette
Inter Press Service English News Wire
01-09-1996
HANOI, Jan. 8 (IPS) -- Armed with brooms, shovels and rusty dust
carts, the 3,000 sanitation workers who daily set about cleaning
up Hanoi's streets, are fighting a losing battle, and officials
acknowledge this.
But the government faces a dilemma. It admits it neither has the
infrastructure in place nor the financial resources to deal with
the domestic garbage problem, particularly as it battles with big
local and foreign firms spewing out industrial waste.
"Hanoi is in the process of massive urbanization, but the state
of the infrastructure, such as sewage and waste collection, does
not match this," acknowledges Prof. Nguyen Duc ...