1. The major cause of water pollution in Vietnam is the weakness in industrial wastewater management.
2. Many factories use fresh water to carry away waste into their plants canals, rivers, and lakes.
3. Most of them do not have a wastewater treatment system.
4. Industrial waste water is directly discharged into canals, lakes, ponds, rivers, causing serious pollution on the surface water.
5. For example, in 2008, Vedan factory, a sodium glutamate plant, released their untreated industrial wastewater into the Thi Vai River and caused tons fish and ducks in the river die.
6. Another cause of water pollution in Vietnam is the lack of awareness among citizens.
7. Every day people generate a lot of garbage, and they throw it directly into canals, river, ponds.
8. They collect water from these sources to do their laundry, wash dishes, and bathe, then they throw the dirty water that contain detergent and shampoo directly into them.