Hanoi (VNA) – The seventhworkshop on decentralised domestic wastewatertreatment in Asia took place in Hanoi on September 24.

The event was jointly held by the VietnamEnvironment Administration (VEA) under the Ministry of Natural Resources andEnvironment, the Technical Infrastructure Agency under the Ministry ofConstruction, and Japan’s Ministry of the Environment.

It focused on policy framework, regulationson urban wastewater management and technical standards to promote the work towardsrealising one of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) on reducing 50percent of untreated wastewater in Asia by 2030.

Addressing the event, VEA Deputy DirectorGeneral Nguyen Hung Thinh said environmental protection requires great effortsof governments and people, while cooperation, experience sharing and technologytransfer between countries hold significant meaning in SDG realisation andeconomic development.

The workshop in Vietnam will help putforward ideas to adjust and supplement regulations on wastewater management inthe draft Law on Environmental Protection, as well as facilitate theimplementation of international agreements which Vietnam has signed, he added.

At the event, representative of theMinistry of Environment of Japan Yuji Hirose introduced the decentralisedwastewater treatment system in Japan (Johkasou), and highlighted that Japan hasworked with countries in the region like Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand todevelop the system.

Takayuki Matsuda, Director of the Officefor Promotion of Johkasou of the Japanese Ministry, said that through theJapan-ASEAN Integration Fund, the Japanese government has supported the launchof a conventional centralised wastewater management system throughout SoutheastAsia./.