Zhejiang Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project

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The Zhejiang Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project for China has an objective to improve access to sustainable water supply and sanitation services in selected villages and towns in rural areas of Zhejiang Province. The project consists of three project components. The first being improving water supply and sanitation by an of US$ 355.9 million, of which US$ 193.5 million is from the IBRD loan, for the construction and rehabilitation of water supply and wastewater collection and treatment facilities in the Project Counties. The second component is training and capacity building which will provide specific training and assistance to local water companies to improve their technical, financial, and overall managerial performance, including their technical capacity for operation and maintenance of all WSS systems. Finally, component three the project management and supervision will provide project management assistance to all relevant agencies at both provincial and county level. During the preparation of the project several missions and workshops were organized to ensure that good practices and lessons learned from ongoing or completed rural WSS projects in China and other countries were shared with the entities involved in the project and were incorporated into the project design. The team also looked at the implementation of other Bank projects in Zhejiang Province to find ways to strengthen implementation.

FY17 - Water, Sanitation and Waste Management

World Bank

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Water Supply and Storage, Waste Processing and Treatment, Forest Products and Packaging, Commercial, Government