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.
Projects Components
- 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
The Project Will Benefit
- 7 Districts
- 426000 People with improved water supply
- 43000 Families with improved sanitation facilities
