Water & sanitation

In working towards increasing rural piped water connection in Vietnam, this study of World Bank is aimed to improve the quality of data of the An Thinh water utility through the assessment of current data management and capacity of its staff and to provide the solutions to improve the data collection and management by applying the IT technology that serves for analysis in the later steps of the larger project.

Rural piped water connection project is aimed to improve access to clean water supply and encourage the use of clean water through adjusting water pricing scheme and subsidizing piped water fees for people using water from An Thinh Water Utility in My Huong commune, Luong Tai district, Bac Ninh. One activity of the project is to conduct census surveys of My Huong. This involves one baseline survey collect demographic and socio-economic data of households under the water utility’s catchment area and quarterly surveys to monitor changes.