Hanoi (VNA), Dec. 5 -- The Japan Environment and Business Organisation (JEBO) has said it is willing to pay all costs to clean the heavily polluted To Lich River and West Lake in Hanoi following a remark by an environment official saying the firm's sewage treatment technology had failed.

The organisation, which was behind a pilot project to clean up the river and lake this summer, said it is prepared to pay in full for the treatment technologies and will rent them to Hanoi authorities once they were proved to be successful.

Hanoi would then take charge of the management and operation of the cleansing system, JEBO said.

JEBO, in coordination with the Japan-Vietnam Environment Company (JVE), kicked off a pilot project in May to clean a s...