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Singida Water Supply Project

Tanzania

Borrower Tanzania
Financing Type Public Sector
Instrument Project Loan
Focus Area Water & Sanitation
Approved 12.06.2002
Signed 30.05.2003
Status Completed
Loan Administrator BADEA
Executing Agency Singida Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, SUWSSA
Co-financiers BADEA, Government
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) 5.00
Total Project Cost (US$m) 12.43

Under the project, the following works will be carried out:

  • dredging and enlargement of the Itampka Lake;
  • construction of a 4,500 m3-capacity treatment plant built;
  • construction of a 16 km-long pipeline that will bring water from the Itampka Lake to the city’s Mawanga Water Storage Center;
  • rehabilitation of existing storage tanks and building of new ones;
  • construction of a water tower near the Singida Airport;
  • installation of a 156 km-long water distribution network within Singida, as well as an extensive conveyance system to household connections.
Beneficiaries include the 70,000 residents of Singida as well as a large number of subsistence farmers.

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