The Vam Co Dong River Surface Water Treatment Plant, according to the water supply plan approved by the Long An Provincial People's Committee, is built in Hiep Hoa town (Duc Hoa district, Long An province), with an area of ​​71.5 hectares, including key construction items: Raw water intake, raw water pumping station + raw water pipeline; Raw water reservoir combined with aeration treatment; Raw water pumping station; Water treatment plant and Clean water transmission pipeline system. The plant has a designed capacity of 200,000 m3/day and night in phase 1; 300,000 m3/day and night in phase 2. The total investment of the project is approximately 5,500 billion VND. The total installed capacity of the plant will reach 1.2 million m3/day and night after completing all investment phases.

This project to build a "regional" water treatment plant is considered extremely urgent, and is expected to contribute to relieving the "thirst" for clean water for Long An in particular and neighboring localities in general.

Currently, the Mekong Delta provinces have about 18 million people, of which 13 million live in rural areas. In recent years, due to the impact of drought, saltwater intrusion, etc., the shortage of clean water is becoming increasingly serious. In fact, during droughts and saltwater intrusion, centralized water supply projects mainly do not have enough supply, sourcing from both surface water and groundwater. At the same time, because of several objective reasons such as centralized rural water