BARRANQ'LA WTR SUP

closed

The proposed project would primarily support programs to: (a) rehabilitate and extend water supply, sewerage and solid waste management facilities in Barranquilla, Colombia's 4th largest city (about 70 percent of the beneficiaries of this program reside in the city's lower income areas); and (b) promote the institutional development of Empresas Publicas Municipales de Barranquilla (EPMB) by strengthening its management, administration and operating efficiency. Such improvements should, in turn, restore the company's financial viability, enabling EPMB, by 1989, to generate sufficient funds from internal sources to finance a reasonable share of its investment requirements. The project would include the provision of equipment, civil works and technical assistance for these purposes as well as consultants' services for preparation of subsequent network expansion to meet demand in the 1990s.