NATL. RURAL WATER SUPPLY

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The National Rural Water Supply Project will support SONEDE's investment program in rural areas, and its house connection program during 1982-1984, thus expanding and improving access to piped water for the population in rural and urban areas. It will consist of: (i) constructing new, and expanding and improving existing, water supply systems in about 150 rural and semi-urban centers; (ii) providing credit facilities to low-income groups to help finance water pipe connections from main pipes to dwellings; and (iii) installing about 80,000 water meters in dwellings newly connected to the supply system. Benefits of the project will accrue mostly to low-income groups, namely about 480,000 inhabitants who will be provided with running water in their dwellings, and about 150,000 rural dwellers who will get access to safe water from public standpipes.