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REPUBLIC OF NAURU Nauru Bulletin Issue 5-2021/230 20 August 2021 ADB $5m grant for urban development planning he Asian Development Bank (ADB) the system without piping to each house Thas approved a $5 million grant (Eg. a ring main) but it is too soon to to expand and improve water supply, determine the final scope of the project. sanitation, and waste management “It is for this reason that the PRF grant services in Nauru. is needed before the project – to do Under the preparatory phase of the the proper studies and consultations to project announced 16 August, a team will determine the possibilities,” Ms Castro- be established within the government Wooldridge said. to provide specialist advice, undertake Nauru does not have centralised piped planning, and coordinate funding to water. All houses have water tanks and address a series of interrelated urban rely either on rain water or desalinated problems. water from Nauru Utilities; while The Department of Climate Change and The five-year prep work seeks to identify the feasibility groundwater is not potable. National Resilience will work the ADB of a piped water system. Households currently store fresh water in their own tanks The project planning team will consider as the implementing agency while the the feasibility of introducing metered, Department of Commerce, Industry and Secretary for CIE Berilyn Jeremiah says piped water; institutional strengthening Environment (CIE) is mandated to oversee the advantages of the project would ensure and investments to make household sanitation sanitation projects. cleaner water, minimise water wastage at the systems safe and effective; and measures to The $5m grant will partly fund the delivery stage, and eliminate long delivery reduce the volume of solid waste, including assessment, planning, and capacity building times from the water plant to households.
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