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WaSSIP

Project at a Glance

With more than 693,000 beneficiaries, the Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement Project (WaSSIP) aspires to increase access to piped water services and improve sanitation in the selected districts; and to strengthen the capacity of associated institutions; increasing the access to safe piped water supply to 60 percent of the population from the current coverage of 44 percent.

Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure.
Institutional Capacity Strengthening.
Sectoral Technical Assistance .
Project Management Support

Vision

“Provide access to safe drinking water for all citizens over the medium term (by 2020) with a particular emphasis on increasing the quality of service (in- creasing the proportion of people served through piped water connections to 60% (3 million people) (at present 45%) and tripling coverage by sewerage systems to 7%).”

Project Objectives

There are several objectives of the project.

Provide safe pipe borne water to people in rural areas
Provide safe pipe borne drinking water to semi urban areas
Provide safe drinking water and sanitation facilities to people in estate sector in Nuwara Eliya district
Ensure safe sanitation facilities
Improve skills in rural water sector
Rehabilitate the identified rural water supply schemes
Construct septage treatment plants in project areas