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Lake Amatitlan Watershed Sustainable Management Project

Guatemala

Borrower Guatemala
Financing Type Public Sector
Instrument Project Loan
Focus Area Water & Sanitation
Approved 27.03.2001
Signed 06.09.2007
Status Completed
Loan Administrator IADB
Executing Agency Authority for the Sustainable Management of Amatitlan Lake Watershed (AMSA)
Co-financiers IADB, Government
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) 5.00
Total Project Cost (US$m) 29.80

This project aims to introduce a series of environmental protection and restoration measures to help bring the area's ecosystem back to its natural state.

  • carrying out of potable water reform studies to help set up drinking water and sanitation systems in five municipalities;
  • introduction of solid waste collection coverage;
  • construction of around twenty dikes along the Villalobos River to stabilize banks, halt erosion and protect against flooding;
  • replenishment of forests and expansion of tree cover;
  • construction of a new sanitary landfill and recycling plant; and
  • carrying out of Capacity building will be carried out at AMSA (Authority for the Sustainable Management of the Amatitlan Lake Watershed).

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