HCM City wants to borrow $900 million to build sewage treatment plants HCM City will have 12 sewage treatment plants by 2020, up from its current two. The city wants to borrow nearly $900 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to build four more plants.   HCM City plans to have 12 sewage treatment plants, which will be built in the basin of the canals of Nhieu Loc - Thi Nghe, Tau Hu - Ben Nghe, Tan Hoa - Lo Gom, and Tham Luong - Ben Cat. These plants will be built in the 2016-2020 period, including West Saigon Plant, with a daily capacity of 150,000 m3 and a loan of $513 million; North Saigon Plant, with a daily capacity of 170,000 m3 and a loan of $81 million; Binh Tan, with 180,000 m3 and $225 million; and Tan Hoa-Lo Gom with 300,000 m3 and over $67 million. Currently, Vietnam’s biggest city has only two wastewater treatment plants: Binh Hung, with a daily capacity of 141,000 m3 and Binh Hung Hoa with a daily capacity of 30,000 m3. These plants can treat just 13% of the total wastewater discharged of 2 million m3 per day in the city. HCM City plans to have 12 sewage treatment plants, which will be built in the basin of the canals of Nhieu Loc - Thi Nghe, Tau Hu - Ben Nghe, Tan Hoa - Lo Gom, and Tham Luong - Ben Cat. HCM City also wants to borrow over $3 billion to develop other infrastructure, transport projects, including $500 million to build the metro line 2 (Ben Thanh - Tham Luong), nearly $2 billion for the metro line 5 (Bay Hien intersection - Saigon Bridge), $500m for the Ben Thanh subway station and $300 million for the municipal traffic control center. Thu Ly, VNN