SN-Water Sector (BD FY95)

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The overall objectives of the Water Sector Project are to address: 1) sustainability, by improving management, pricing, and cost recovery and reducing the Government subsidy for industrial, domestic, and irrigation water; 2) poverty alleviation and health, by increasing access to safe potable water and adequate and more affordable sanitation for the urban poor; 3) private sector participation, by engaging a private company to manage urban water supply. The specific implementation objectives are: 1) in water resource management - to formulate an integrated, multisectoral strategy for the shared use of water by households, industry, and agriculture that will be coordinated with future development projects in these sectors; 2) in institutional capacity building - to strengthen the capacity of Management and Planning Unit for Water Resources to monitor aquifer exploitation, that of the newly established National Water Company of Senegal to formulate and enforce policy and strategy, and that of the National Office of Urban Sanitation to develop a strategy for urban and peri-urban sanitation improvement; 3) in urban water production and distribution - to reduce leakages in the Greater Dakar water distribution system and to increase the region's water production capacity; and 4) in urban sanitation - to increase the effectiveness of the existing Dakar sewerage system, develop sanitation in secondary towns, and promote the reuse of treated municipal wastewater for irrigation.