Hanoi’s ‘Finland Water Road,’ where clean water changed urban life
Vietnam News 14:14 21/12/2025A small riverside road in Hanoi bears no official sign, but generations of residents know it as ‘Finland Water Road,’ a name born from hardship, memory, and a landmark clean-water program that reshaped daily life in the Vietnamese capital.
Apple to expand clean water project for Vietnam schools through 2026
Vietnam News 16:24 10/12/2025Apple will expand its clean water project for schools in the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City in the 2025-26 period, aiming to improve access to safe drinking water for thousands of students in climate-vulnerable communities.
World Bank urges US$9bn investment in Vietnam’s water infrastructure
Vietnam News 13:09 29/03/2024Only 17.5 percent of the country’s population has access to clean water
Controversy floods Hanoi over government’s plan to spend big on clean water
Vietnam News 12:26 15/11/2019The city agreed to purchase clean water from a new treatment plant at an unusually high rate on behalf of local distributors, then subsidize those same distributors for a major chunk of the high costs
Suspects arrested in contamination of Hanoi’s water source
Vietnam News 10:51 19/10/2019Around ten cubic meters of waste matter from a tiles factory was dumped into a water source for Hanoi
