From the preferential capital of the Bank for Social Policies, Ms. Bui Thi Ly's family in Day hamlet, Yen Lap commune (Cao Phong) has been investing in building the clean water and sanitation works.

With the loans from the rural environment and sanitation, thousands of households have invested in renovating, upgrading and building new clean water and sanitation facilities to meet the national standards on environmental protection and sanitation. These projects have made an important contribution to improving the quality of rural sanitation, ensuring health and improving the quality of life for people. The lending objects are not limited to poor households and those who are under the preferential policies only. All households living permanently or having permanent residence registration in rural areas that do not have sanitation and sanitation facilities or have but not reaching the national standards have been certified by the commune-level People's Committee, they can borrow capital if necessary.

Mr. Vu Dinh Doai, the director of the provincial Bank for Social Policies, says this is the fourth largest debit program in 20 preferential credit programs being implemented in the province. In fact, in recent years, the credit program for the clean water and environmental sanitation has contributed to improving the living conditions, health, quality of life and the rural environmental sanitation for people, actively participating in the criteria for the environment in the new rural construction. By the end of July, in the whole province there have been 3,650 turns of borrowers with a loan turnover of over 66 billion VND, bringing the total outstanding loans of the whole province to over 433 billion VND with 35,714 households with outstanding loans. From this source of capital, the households have invested in construction of 7,969 clean water and sanitation projects such as water tanks, water filter tanks, drilled wells, bathrooms and septic toilets since the beginning of the year.

According to data from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in 2018, there were another 6.7 thousand rural households using hygienic water, increasing the rate of rural households using clean water to 91, 5% in the whole province. At the same time, there are another 6 thousand households with hygienic latrines in the year, increasing the rate of the rural households using hygienic latrines to 70%.

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