* Status:

Currently, there are 3 water supply plants in the city.

- The Cau Do water supply plant utilizes a horizontal settling tank, a quick filter tank - liquid chlorine with its capacity of 50,000 m3 per day.

- The San Bay water supply plant utilizes a radian settling tank, a quick filter tank - liquid chlorine with its capacity of 20,000 m3 per day.

- The Son Tra water supply plant utilizes a pressure filter tank - liquid chlorine with its capacity of 5,000 m3 per day.

By using the river water as the main source, the water needs for daily activities and production of the local people and other organizations can be satisfied.

With a total length of F100-900 pipes of nearly 200 kilometers, the number of people using fresh water is as many as 276,041; accounting for 38.18% of the population (based on the statistics of the year 2000). Of them, the inner-city and rural areas accounted for 266,514 and 9,572, making up 46.72% and 6.25% respectively.

* Development orientation:

It is estimated that by 2010, the water demand for industrial, service and local people activities will be about 451,000 m3 per day, of which one person will need 150 liters of fresh water a day (80% of the population use tap water). In order to promote industrial and tourist development, Danang plans to upgrade and newly build some water supply plants as follows:

- Improve the capacity of Cau Do water plant, San Bay, and Son Tra station to 170,000 m3/day, 30,000 m3/day, and 10,000 m3/day respectively.

- Construct a water supply plant in the city center with its capacity of 120,000 m3/day in the first stage and 240,000 m3/day in the second one.

- Construct a water supply plant near Cu De river with a capacity of 20,000 m3/day in the first stage and 100,000 m3/day in the second one to serve Hoa Khanh, Lien Chieu Industrial Zones and some newly-built residential areas in the northwest of the city.

- Increase the pressure of the stations at Nguyen Van Troi bridge; build dams on the Vinh Dien and Cu De rivers; improve and newly install some main and branch pipes to every inner-city and some suburban areas; continue to mobilize aid for the rural fresh water program in the remaining uninstalled areas.