Over 83 pct of Cambia's urban dwellers have access to clean water: minister

PHNOM PENH, July 21 (FN) — More than 83 percent of Cambodia's urban inhabitants have as of now access to clean water, up from just 60.5 percent in 2012, Minister of Industry and Handicraft Cham Prasidh said on Thursday.

Talking amid the introduction function of a water treatment plant in northwestern Battambang region, the clergyman said approximately 550,000 urban families now made utilization of clean water, up from just 400,000 families in 2012.

"The Cambodian government has set a dream to empower every single urban tenant to have admittance to clean water with a sensible cost by 2025," he said.

He included that the Southeast Asian nation delivered 220 million cubic meters of clean water a year ago, up 11.8 percent year-on-year.

On the rustic side, the nation has supplied clean water to around 50 percent of country territories by a year ago, as indicated by a report of the Ministry of Rural Development,


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