Tag Archive | subsidies
Palu: ADB loans US$ 16 million Water Sector Improvement Program
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$ 16 million for the Water Sector Improvement Program in the Pacific island state of Palau (pop. 20,000). The programme will address regulatory, management, technical and pricing problems that currently result in high non-revenue water losses and undermine cost recovery. It will also help establish the Palau […]
Brazil, Minas Gerais: subsidized water and sanitation for low-income communities
Brazil’s Minas Gerais state governor Aécio Neves has approved 545mn reais (US$232mn) for sanitation projects in 463 locations [benefiting] 400,000 people [in 92 towns]. Copanor, a subsidiary of state water utility Copasa, will implement the projects. Copanor was created by the state government in August 2007 to provide water supply and sewage treatment services with […]
India, Goa: Govt planning to subsidise sewage connections
Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat [of the Indian state of Goa] has announced that the government would [...] subsidise sewage connections [in] Margao as he made an impassioned plea to the household owners to connect their septic tanks and soakpits to the sewage plant and avoid a health hazard. [T]he Chief Minister said his government will […]
Chile: Bachelet affirms law to exempt low-income families from basic service connection fees
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced a new law that exempts low-income homeowners [of homes costing under 750 UF = inflation-linked unit, US$24,117] from paying [UF 30] potable water and sanitation connection costs. The initiative will speed up coverage in non-urbanized areas by helping water and sanitation utilities expand their operations to areas that are not […]
Sri Lanka: water in the 2009 budget, renewed focus on rural development
President Mahinda Rajapaksa presented the 2009 Budget on 06 November 2008. The President said that a development programme unforeseen in the past three decades would be implemented in those liberated areas formerly under the control of the Tamil Tigers. The President also spoke of a new focus on rural development and infrastructure such as water […]
India: rising costs hit Centre’s sanitation scheme
Just as several flagship development projects like the construction of rural roads have been hit by rising input costs, the government has been forced to take a hard look at its cost estimates for building toilets ["twin-pit water-seal" household latrines] for families below the poverty line in rural India. Soaring steel and cement prices have […]
