World Bank Helps Bangladesh Improve Water and Sanitation

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World Bank Helps Bangladesh Improve Water and Sanitation

The government of Bangladesh signed an additional $47.50 million financing agreement with the World Bank to continue construction of new water infrastructure in Chittagong, and provide access to safe water to around 650,000 inhabitants in the city.

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Chittagong City, Source: Wikimedia Commons

The additional financing to the Chittagong Water Supply Improvement and Sanitation Project will help the Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) to complete constructing the Modunaghat Water Treatment Plant and Patenga Booster Pumping Station, as well as to install 60 km of new water transmission pipeline and rehabilitate another 73 km pipeline from Kalurghat to the Patenga Booster Pumping Station.

“Only half of the people living in Chittagong Metropolitan Area, the country’s second largest city, have access to improved water supply,” said Rajashree Paralkar, Acting World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh.

“The financing will help improve access to safe water and sanitation services in Chittagong City. We also hope that CWASA will be able to mitigate the city’s water-logging issues by improving the drainage infrastructure with the implementation of the Drainage and Sewerage Master Plans that the project is supporting to finalize.”

The project has already provided access to improved water to 254,400 people. The additional financing will help 27,000 homes access reliable water supply by installing 10,000 new piped household connections and rehabilitating 17,000 existing connections. Further, the project will install 150 community connections in the city’s poorer areas.

The additional financing will also strengthen CWASA’s institutional capacity and help CWASA finalize sanitation and drainage master plans for the city.

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