Atyrau Pilot Water Supply & Sanitation Project

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The Atyrau Pilot Water Supply and Sanitation Project aims to strengthen the capacity of the Vodocanal (the water and wastewater enterprise) in the City of Atyrau to provide reliable and safe drinking water and disposal of sewage in an environmentally responsible, financially, operationally, and institutionally efficient and sustainable manner. There are five project components. 1) Rehabilitation of the water supply and sewerage systems will cover the rehabilitation of mains, replacement of pipe work, leak detection works, construction of a new booster pumping station, replacement of selected sections of sewers and renovation of pumping station in both Privokzalny District and City Center District. 2) Emergency repairs is for smaller civil works repairs/rehabilitation and urgent replacement of meters, pumps, and other materials identified by Vodocanal during project implementation. 3) Institutional strengthening and project management will provide technical assistance a) to strengthen operational and financial management of Vodocanal, b) to strengthen the institutional capacity and administration of the city of Atyrau, and c) to the implementation and supervision of the project. 4) Incremental operating cost will finance administrative support, office equipment, and other operational cost for Committee for Water Resources and Atyrau Oblast Akimat. 5) Refinancing of project preparation facility will finance detailed design and preparation of bid documents for the project.