Chongqing Small Towns Water Environment Management Project

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The development objective of the Chongqing Small Towns Water Environment Management Project for China is to reduce flood risks and improve wastewater infrastructure services in selected counties of Chongqing municipality. The project comprises of five components. The first component, flood management in Tongnan County will carry out non-structural measures at the county level, including: (a) strengthening flood early warning and emergency response capacity through provision of water level monitoring and warning facilities; (b) upgrading flood risk mapping and dissemination, safety zoning, raising public awareness, and emergency response planning; and (c) improving land use management planning for flood affected areas. The second component, flood and wastewater management in Rongchang County will carry out non-structural measures at the county level, including: (a) improving hydromet monitoring and information management systems through the establishment of a local computer network with the required hardware and software, geographic information system (GIS) database and basic supporting facilities for data storage, processing, and communication; (b) strengthening the flood early warning and emergency response capacity through development of flood emergency response plans, capacity-building, and basic facilities at county, township, and village levels; and (c) upgrading flood risk mapping and dissemination, safety zoning, and raising public awareness. The third component, flood and wastewater management in Shizhu County will carry out non-structural measures at the county level, including: (a) improving hydromet monitoring and information management systems through the establishment of telemetry gauging stations; (b) strengthening the flood early warning and emergency response capacity through development of flood emergency response plans, capacity-building, and basic facilities at the county, township, and village levels; (c) upgrading flood risk mapping and dissemination, safety zoning, and raising public awareness; and (d) developing a geographic information system for monitoring, operation, and maintenance of drainage and wastewater network facilities. The fourth component, flood and wastewater management in Pengshui County will: (a) improve hydromet monitoring and information management systems through the establishment of telemetry gauges and rainfall stations; (b) strengthen the flood forecasting and early warning capacity at the county level through the establishment and operationalization of a flood forecasting system with the required database, data processing, communication and flood forecasting software, and hardware and facilities at the management center; and (c) upgrade flood risk mapping and dissemination, safety zoning, raising public awareness, and emergency response planning. The fifth component, project management and implementation support will fund the incremental operation costs for the Chongqing project management office (CPMO).