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ADB sends water mission to Azerbaijan

31 March 2009 07:40 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. Vijay Padmanabhan, urban development specialist at the Asian Development Bank, has led a delegation to Azerbaijan to discuss the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project.
The ADB Office in Baku said the delegation will have meetings with government officials on the project. The inclusion of three more towns to the project will also be discussed during the visit. The mission will leave Azerbaijan on April 7.
The Asian Development Bank has allocated a US$ 30 million loan toward the cost of the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project and the proceeds of the loan will be used for payments for goods, works, related services and consulting services to be procured under this project.
Bidding for contracts will be governed by the Procurement Guidelines of the Asian Development Bank.
The objective of the Project is to improve the quality, reliability, and sustainability of water and sanitation services in towns of Agdash, Goychay, and Nakhchivan.
The Project consists two components: one for physical infrastructure construction and rehabilitation, and the other for institutional reforms and capacity building. Under the physical infrastructure construction and rehabilitation, in Agdash and Goychay, the Project will develop new well fields with 6 new boreholes, and rehabilitate 2 existing boreholes to replace the current water sources; replace the existing water distribution system with new pipes (about 100 km total); and build six elevated reservoirs and treatment facilities. In Nakhchivan, the Project will provide new and reliable gravity-fed trunk mains from the infiltration galleries, build 4 new command reservoirs, and refurbish 6 existing reservoirs, interconnecting them to create a chain at key location for improved water delivery through gravity flow and improve key section of the distribution system. For wastewater the Project will build a system of waste stabilization ponds in all three towns to treat sewage to acceptable level before discharing to rivers; construct about 120 km of new main and branch sewers; and build 4 sewerage pumping stations.