Overview of the activities of industrial parks and impacts on surface water quality in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Abstract

Ho Chi Minh City is an economic, commercial, financial and service center of Vietnam, concentrating many industrial and export processing zones with large scale and high growth rate. After nearly 30 years of construction and development (1991-2019), industrial parks and export processing zones have been formed, diversified and actively contributed to the socio-economic and industrial development. However, along with it, the level of environmental pollution caused by IPs and EPZs is increasing, becoming a threat to sustainable economic growth. This article provides an overview of the current status of operations as well as impacts on surface water from the operation of some industrial parks (IPs), export processing zones (EPZs) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.