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Washington, DC -- Weekly Update #47 -- This fact sheet highlights overall accomplishments and some weekly activities from USAID’s reconstruction efforts in Iraq. For more information on USAID’s programs in Iraq please see: www.usaid.gov/iraq
Program Overview
USAID programs are implemented in coordination with the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Coalition country partners, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector partners. The USAID Mission in Iraq carries out programs in education, health care, food security, infrastructure reconstruction, airport and seaport management, economic growth, community development, local governance, and transition initiatives.
Water and Sanitation
Accomplishments to Date:
• USAID is rehabilitating a total of seven major wastewater treatment plants and five water treatment plants.
• Additional projects include the expansion of a water treatment plant and construction of a new one, as well as repairs to the Sweet Water Canal and the Basrah water treatment system.
• USAID repaired hundreds of breaks in Iraq’s critical and long neglected water network, significantly increasing water flow.
Highlights this Week:
• Local government officials in Baghdad Municipality’s water department are developing a plan to improve water treatment throughout the city. This program will be implemented with a five-person team, (two from LGP and three from the Department of Water). The team will compile data on plant performance, conduct interviews with plant staff and utility officials, evaluate field operations, identify and prioritize performance limiting factors, and train plant staff on how to use software to track the water’s turbidity, which is the amount of soil or foreign material in the water.
• A new cost-based accounting system has been installed in the finance section of a Maysan Governorate city Water Department. This new system will help the Department manage the city’s water system sustainably through a combination of central budget financing and locally generated revenues.
• The rehabilitation of a wastewater treatment plant in Babil Governorate is continuing and is on schedule for completion by November. Once complete, the plant will serve approximately 53,000 Iraqis.
• USAID has begun a project to restore a major water treatment plant in Baghdad and provide potable water. The plant—designed to treat 540 million liters of water a day—is operating at 60 to 80 percent capacity. This project is expected to be complete in July 2006.
See complete report at:
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/updates/sep04/iraq_fs47_090104.pdf
Source: USAID, http://www.usaid.gov/
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