Vietnam: 05 economical and efficient water use activities eligible for incentives

According to Article 6 of Decree No. 54/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, there are 05 economical and efficient water use activities which are eligible for incentives, to be specific:

1. Reuse, cyclic use of water:

- Organizations construct or renovate, upgrade waste water collection and treatment work items with the scale of 40 m3/day or more, meeting the national technical standards for water quality, in accordance with the purpose of re-use, and use such water amount for at least 80% of their activities;

- Organizations construct or renovate, upgrade, invest in-depth work items in order to use water cyclically for their activities at least 500 m3/day, excluding cyclic water use for cooling and other cyclic forms under production process, technology;

- Organizations that manage and develop the hydraulic works renovate and repair items of the hydraulic work systems in order to use recurrently at least 15% of water amount supplied to the system within the hydraulic work system

2. Collection of rainwater for domestic use:

- Organizations build the systems of collection of rainwater and storage in tanks with a capacity of 500 m3 or more served for domestic use in the border areas, islands and areas of which freshwater is scarce’

- Households, individuals build the systems of collection of rainwater and storage in tanks with a capacity of 05 m3 or more served for domestic use in mountainous areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas, islands, areas facing socio-economic difficulties, areas facing extreme socio-economic difficulties, or areas of which freshwater is scare.

3. Desalination of brackish or salt water into fresh water for domestic use:

- Organizations construct works, install equipment, apply technology of desalination of brackish or salt water into fresh water with the scale of 02 m3/day or more for the sea areas and islands, 10 m3/day or more for areas affected by saltwater intrusion;

- Households, individuals install equipment, apply technology of desalination of brackish or salt water into fresh water with the scale of 0,2 m3/day or more for the sea areas and islands, 01 m3/day or more for areas affected by saltwater intrusion;

4. Production and import of water-saving products, equipment, technologies:

- Organizations, individuals manufacture water-saving products, equipment, technologies meeting water-saving criteria issued by competent State agencies;

- Organizations, individuals import water-saving products, equipment, advanced technologies which have not been manufactured in Vietnam meeting water-saving criteria issued by competent State agencies.

5. Application of technology, techniques, methods of water-saving irrigation in agricultural production: Organizations, households, individuals apply technologies, techniques and methods of water-saving irrigation to agricultural production meeting the criteria for water-saving issued by competent State agencies with the scale from 0,5 hectares or more for rice irrigation, 01 hectare or more for upland crop irrigation.

View full text at Decree No. 54/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from August 01, 2015.

Thu Ba

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