POWER/WATER

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The Power - Water Project is aimed at ensuring extended, more reliable and cost-effective service, primarily to urban but also to rural inhabitants through alleviation of the major managerial and operational constraints of the parastatal water supply and power utility Energie du Mali (EDM). The project will consist of: (i) a water supply component consisting of distribution system works; (ii) construction of facilities, supply of vehicles, and equipment for EDM operations; and (iii) a power component, including construction of a 2MW biomass power plant and distribution system works. To provide support for institutional rehabilitation, the project will also include financing of 65 work-years of consultant services for technical assistance to EDM management and for carrying out operational and sector policy studies. In addition, technical studies and preliminary designs will be carried out pursuant to the second stage of the program.