The Asian Development Banks (ADB) has approved a $50 million loan to help expand and improve urban water supply and sanitation services in four cities in Cambodia. ADB will also administer a $10 million grant from the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism, funded by the Government of Japan, to help finance a new energy-efficient waste water treatment plant (WTP) in Battambang. It will further administer a $43.54 million loan co-financing from Agence Francaise de Dveloppement, which will jointly finance the project in all four cities. The total cost of the project is about $119.17 million.
The Provincial Water Supply and Sanitation Project will improve piped water supply in Battambang and Kampong Cham, benefiting an additional 209,000 people by 2022 through the construction of two WTP with a combined capacity of 61,600 cubic metres per day and new distribution networks with a combined length of 161 km. This will increase coverage of piped water supply to about 90 per cent of the population in the project cities.
Additionally, the project will improve urban sanitation services through the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant in Battambang and expansion of the wastewater treatment plant at Sihanoukville, with a combined capacity of more than 31,000 cubic metres per day, and supported with the construction of an additional 37 km of new sewer pipelines.