Documents & Reports
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Creating benefits from cooperation in shared water resources : Lesotho's highlands water project phases IA and IB (English)
The Kingdom of Lesotho is land-locked country surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is one of the world's poorest countries, with a population of about 2.1 million. The economy is substantially...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 57772 Document Date: December 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Improving coastal water quality through basin management : China's Hai Basin Integrated Water and Environment Management Project (English)
The Bo Hai Sea is a semi-enclosed international sea located in the northwest corner of the yellow sea. It has globally important ecological resources and provides significant fishery benefits to China...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46238 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Innovative water resource conservation measures : the North China Plain Water Conservation Project (English)
The North China Plain is one of the most densely populated regions in the world, encompassing the capital Beijing, many other important industrial cities, and on the coastal edge, commercial ports. It...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46237 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Increasing agricultural productivity through improved drainage : Egypt's national drainage projects I and II (English)
Egypt's agriculture sector provides more than a third of national employment. Almost two-thirds of the poor live in rural areas and are primarily dependent on agriculture and related industries for survival...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46235 Document Date: October 1, 2008
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Rehabilitating water infrastructure in conflict areas : Iraq's Dokan and Derbandikhan Emergency Hydropower Project (English)
The Dokan and Derbandikhan hydropower plants are the two largest power plants in the Kurdistan Regional Governorate of Iraq. Both connect to the national power grid and each plant is part of a multipurpose...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46231 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Creating an integrated water resource management system : Mexico's Water Resources Management Project (English)
During the past several decades, the demands placed on Mexico's water resources increased dramatically largely due to rapid population growth. Although these regions came to account for close to 90 percent...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46239 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Integrated water resources management in a water-scarce region : Tunisia's First Water Sector Investment Project (English)
The first objective of the Water Sector Investment Project was to promote effective integrated water resource management by establishing and implementing a sound institutional framework and sector reform...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46240 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Water user associations as an essential component of irrigation reform : Kyrgyz Republic's first and second on-farm irrigation projects (English)
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of the Kyrgyz Republic in 1991, the country's agricultural sector experienced a serious crisis. Due to a deterioration of organizational...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46232 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Innovations in rural water supply and irrigation : Vietnam's Mekong Delta Water Resources Project (English)
The Mekong Delta in southeastern Vietnam is a rural area of approximately 39,000 km covered predominantly by rice fields. In the mid-1990s, the agriculture sector in the delta accounted for nearly 30 percent...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46233 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Reducing emissions and helping balance environmental flows with support from the Prototype Carbon Fund : Chile's Chacabuquito Small Hydropower Project (English)
Hydropower is a renewable low carbon source of electricity and an important component in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy production. The Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) established by the World...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46230 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Innovative approaches to ecosystem restoration : Kazakhstan's Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea First Phase Project (English)
Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea was the world's fourth-largest lake. Shared by five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic) the Aral Sea basin...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46236 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Technical and institutional modernization of irrigated agriculture : Peru's Irrigation Sub-sector Project and Irrigation Sub-sector Supplemental Project (English)
The objectives of the Irrigation Sub-sector Project and its Supplemental Project were to support the institutional and technical modernization of irrigated agriculture in La Costa. Specific goals aimed...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46234 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Hydropower investments for developing a stable regional energy market : Bosnia and Herzegovina's Infrastructure Rehabilitation Support Project (English)
In 2005, seven countries of South East Europe instituted the Energy Community of South East Europe (ECSEE) in an effort to regionally integrate the energy market and so to address the inefficiencies of...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46229 Document Date: October 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Rehabilitating the urban water sector in Cambodia (English)
Between 1998 and 2004, the Urban Water Supply Project supported the turnaround of two water utilities of Cambodia. The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) became a financially viable public enterprise...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46191 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Reaching the poor through sustainable partnerships : the slum sanitation program in Mumbai, India (English)
In December 2003, the Bombay Sewage Disposal Project (BSDP) was completed. It was supported by a $192 million blended International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)/International Development...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46187 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Visible service improvements facilitate reforms in town water supply : PRAGUAS in Ecuador (English)
In 2001, the government of Ecuador, with financing from the World Bank, started assisting municipalities and local communities to carry out the Rural and Small Town Water Supply and Sanitation Project...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46226 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Community participation and low cost technology : bringing water supply and sanitation to Brazil's urban poor (English)
From 1988 to 1996, the Low Income Sanitation Technical Assistance Project (PROSANEAR) supported the scaling up of a new approach to delivering water supply and sanitation services to the urban poor in...
Document Type: Other Agricultural Study Report No.: 46192 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The management contract in Gaza (English)
In 1996 the World Bank provided a US$ 25 million credit to the West Bank Gaza for the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) in the Gaza Strip. The project supported the award of a performance based management...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46228 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Willingness to charge and willingness to pay : China Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program (English)
In 1985, the World Bank started its assistance to the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWS) in China, which was a high priority for the Government. The RWS program consisted of four successive projects...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46227 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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A demand driven approach in service delivery : the community water and sanitation program in Ghana (English)
In 2000, the Second Community Water and Sanitation Project (CWSP2) was initiated with support of a World Bank IDA credit of US$21.9 million. The project built on lessons learned from the first Community...
Document Type: Other Health Study Report No.: 46185 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed