The development objective of the Zhejiang Qiandao Lake and Xin'an River Basin Water Resources and Ecological Environment Protection Project for China is to develop demonstrative integrated watershed management practices and to reduce pollution and improve forest ecological environment in priority areas of the Qiandao Lake catchment in Zhejiang.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include : (i) land compensation, resettlement fees and compensation for young crops; (ii) compensation for cultivated crops for individuals renting land for farming; (iii) new residential land, cash compensation for the affected buildings at full replacement cost, relocation allowance, temporary relocation transition; (iv) cash compensation based on assessed market prices for owners of affected buildings on state-owned land; (v) new business land, or cash compensation based on replacement cost for loss of no-residential buildings; (vi) cash compensation based on the replacement cost for loss of appendages and other assets; (vii) restore the affected facilities to their original state and function, or supply recovery funds to the relevant departments for loss of infrastructure; and (viii) give extra support, to ensure that their income levels and living standards to restore or improve various types of direct loss.
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This report presents water efficiency solutions adopted by three manufacturing companies in Europe and Central Asia. These companies operate in countries with some of the region’s lowest water tariffs.
... See More + A recent drive to expand their operations, cut costs, and improve environmental sustainability led them to focus on water use. The task force reviewed the blueprint and identified investments that can yield immediate cost savings. First, the company needed to modernize the freshwater treatment and monitoring process. Second, the cooling tower was old and inefficient, using large amounts of energy yet still failing to cool sufficiently. The improvements also yielded benefits in the regulatory sphere, as the company no longer faced expensive environmental penalties for the quality of its wastewater.
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This report presents water efficiency solutions adopted by three manufacturing companies in Europe and Central Asia. These companies operate in countries with some of the region’s lowest water tariffs.
... See More + A recent drive to expand their operations, cut costs, and improve environmental sustainability led them to focus on water use. The task force reviewed the blueprint and identified investments that can yield immediate cost savings. First, the company needed to modernize the freshwater treatment and monitoring process. Second, the cooling tower was old and inefficient, using large amounts of energy yet still failing to cool sufficiently. The improvements also yielded benefits in the regulatory sphere, as the company no longer faced expensive environmental penalties for the quality of its wastewater.
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Africa’s urban population is growing rapidly. Between 2000 and 2015, the urban population increased by more than 80 percent from 206 million to 373 million people.
... See More + Although access to piped water increased over the period (from 82 million urban dwellers with piped water in 2000 to 124 million in 2015), African utilities were not able to keep up with the rapid urbanization as reflected in the decline of piped water as a primary source of water supply in percentage terms. The objective of this assessment is to inform Bank and government policies and projects on the drivers of utility performance. The report describes the main outcomes and lessons learned from the assessment that identified and analyzed the main features of water utility performance in Africa. The report includes the following chapters: chapter one gives introduction, chapter two describes the methodology used in the study, including details on the data collection process. In chapter three, the study team undertook a trend analysis of utility performance of the sector. Chapter four examines the efficiency of utilities using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) while also using an absolute performance approach. Chapter five investigates the effect of institutional factors on utility performance. Chapter six presents an econometric analysis of the drivers of utility performance, using various definitions of utility performance. The results from the econometric models are triangulated with a set of case studies of five utilities (Burkina Faso’s l’Office National de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement (ONEA), Cote d’Ivoire’s la société de distribution d’eau de la Côte d’Ivoire (SODECI), Kenya’s Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC), Senegal’s Sénégalaise des Eaux (SDE), and Uganda’s National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), similar to those that the electricity study team undertook, which are presented in chapter seven. The report concludes in chapter eight with the lessons learned from the assessment.
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Working Paper 113075 MAY 01, 2017
Van Den Berg,Caroline; Danilenko,Alexander V.EnglishDisclosed
The objective of the First Phase of the Ferghana Valley Water Resources Management Project for Uzbekistan is to improve agricultural production in areas affected by water-logging, and to reduce damage to housing and infrastructure from rising ground water levels and salinity in the project areas.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: studies on allocating land first of all from non-agricultural areas or lands bad for agriculture; iii) in cases of selection of arable lands consider saving of productive lands, improving environmental situation, stopping erosive processes, water logging; iv) try to avoid ungrounded demolition of buildings and constructions, especially houses, causing problems to infrastructure; v) existing buildings and constructions, including illegal underground connections, are defined; vi) Compensations for land holders for their losses are calculated; vii) necessity of moving fertile soil for use in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and for other needs studied; viii) conditions of land acquisition from other land holders are studied.
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The development objective of the Hubei Inland Waterway Improvement Project for China is to improve inland waterway transport capacity along the Han River in support of low carbon development.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) continue to implement national and local fishing moratorium orders to keep ecological balance of Han River basins; (ii) construct fishways and release fries (artificially reproduced) into the river to restore and protect fish varieties and restore fishermen’s livelihoods along Yicheng section of Han River; (iii) protect aquatic environment and enhance fishery management at reservoir area and dam area; (iv) local labors shall be preferred for project construction and field lifting to increase their incomes; (v) labor service and daily consumables (such as grains and vegetables) shall be bought from nearby poor persons; (vi) Yicheng Municipal Labor Bureau will choose those having labor ability from the vulnerable groups and poor people affected by land acquisition and teach them all kinds of labor skills; and (vii) at poor villages, roads shall be expanded to improve their living and production conditions.
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The development objectives of the Second Additional Financing for the Rural Community Development and Water Mobilization Project (Prodermo) for Dijbouti is to increase access of rural communities to water and enhance their capacity to manage water and agro-pastoral resources in the project areas using a participatory approach to community-based development.
... See More + It comprises the following three components. 1) Priority community investment sub-projects, 2) Capacity building and provision of technical assistance and 3) Project coordination and management. The proposed additional financing is to scale up the parent project activities to six additional neighbor pastoral areas and amend the current project location to include the Arta Region for the benefits of an additional 3,740 households to enhance, expand and sustain expected outcomes or outputs. This will not lead to any major changes to the current project concept, design, institutional, implementation, procurement, and financial management arrangements. The second additional financing proposal incorporates, however, a number of changes as follows: (i) the closing date will be extended by 31 months (from May 31, 2017, to December 31, 2019); (ii) the result framework, the disbursement and the implementation schedules will be adjusted to reflect the expanded scope and increased targets, (iii) the four project categories of expenditures will be amended to reflect one single category, and (iv) the project location description will be revised to include the Arta Region.
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The objective of the Bamako Water Supply Project of Mali is to increase sustainable access to drinking water and the improvement of the health of all populations in the face of the increasingurbanization and accelerated population growth.
... See More + This objective will be achieved through: (i) expanding water transmission, storage and distribution capacities, and facilitating access to services through programs for constructing social water connections and public stand posts; and (ii) supporting the implementation of the urban water sub-sector reform and strengthening capacities to deliver and manage services. Planned activities will likely have environmental impacts. During project preparation, the Borrower will prepare a full Environmental Assessment for the whole project.
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