WATER SUPPLY SECTOR

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The main objectives of the Water Supply Sector Project for Burundi are to: (a) improve the quality and quantity of potable water provided to the rural population; (b) increase the local population's sense of responsibility for maintaining its water supply facilities; (c) help the government develop and implement appropriate institutional and financial arrangements in the water supply sector; (d) extend the pricing policy initiated under the rural water supply project to the entire country; (e) coordinate donor activity in the rural water supply sector; and (f) help the government prepare and monitor a public expenditure program for the sector. The project includes the following components: (i) construction of rural water supply systems in nine provinces (Kayanza, Ngozi, Karuzi, Muyinga, Gitega, Muramvya, Cibitoke, Bubanza, and Makamba); (ii) development and protection of about 3,000 springs; and (iii) capacity building in the department of rural water resources and electrification through the provision of expertise, equipment and training; in the communes and the communal water utilities through the provision of training and sensitization of population, and in the national water and electricity authority through the provision of studies.