Infrastructure

Water and sanitation

Firm says it may turn taps off in Poipet homes

Residents of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City have been warned to brace themselves for a major water shortage over the next two weeks as the company contracted to supply the border town’s clean water scrambles to build a new reservoir amid a localized drought. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-says-it-may-turn-taps-off-in-poipet-homes-85285/

Japan provides $25 million to upgrade city water in Kampot

The Japanese government will extend $25 million in aid to rehabilitate the dilapidated water system in Kampot, an old French colonial river port which is attracting more and more tourists. ...

Donald Lee and Nov Sivutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11925/japan-provides--25-million-to-upgrade-city-water-in-kampot/

City authority rejects water quality claim

The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority has released a statement dismissing a media report suggesting that it had been using unhealthy amounts of iron in its water purification processes as an “exaggeration.” ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-authority-rejects-water-quality-claim-80535/

Fund intended to improve country’s urban sanitation

The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh ...

Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fund-intended-improve-countrys-urban-sanitation

Talking trash: PM Hun Sen backs review of contracts

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday personally backed the review of government contracts with private waste removal companies, two weeks after the Council of Ministers signed an order indicating they will review the capital’s contract with garbage collector Cintri. ...

Vong Sokheng and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/talking-trash-pm-hun-sen-backs-review-contracts

Sanitation check-up

The Ministry of Education will ask government schools to provide information on toilet numbers, fresh water supply and vegetable gardens as part of efforts to tackle poor sanitation and nutrition discouraging students from attending class. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/sanitation-check

Phnom Penh’s trash problem bigger than Cintri: company

Cintri, Phnom Penh’s sole trash-collection company, said on Tuesday that the firm was not to blame for the capital’s trash-strewn streets and that the government was using it as a scapegoat to avoid accepting responsibility for the problem. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-trash-problem-bigger-than-cintri-company-78180/

Council of ministers calls for review of contract with Cintri

The government’s faith in Phnom Penh’s embattled trash-collection company appears to have finally been lost after the Council of Ministers announced in a letter on Tuesday that a shake-up was on the way as it considers rescinding Cintri’s exclusive right to manage the city’s garbage ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=news

Trash to double over festival

The heaps of fly-covered refuse known to accumulate around the capital are set to grow a whole lot worse as millions of visitors arrive for the upcoming Water Festival and tax the city’s overburdened trash collector. More than two million additional people are expected to crowd ...

Laignee Barron and Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/trash-double-over-festival

Floods swamp capital

A torrential downpour that lasted over three hours yesterday morning has left many in the capital struggling with flooded houses, businesses and travel conditions, sparking outcry that authorities have not done enough to manage the rain’s effects. Flooding took place in virtually every district in ...

Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/floods-swamp-capital

Still no water flowing into Prey Sar prison

Prey Sar prison officials are carting thousands of liters of water to the prison each day because a construction company smashed a water main and has yet to fix it. According to prison officials, inmates are rationed 3 liters of clean water each day, which is ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/still-no-water-flowing-into-prey-sar-prison-66968/

Phnom Penh to get new water treatment plant

Construction is to begin this month on a $40 million water treatment plant to help Phnom Penh meet a growing demand for clean water, following an official contract signing ceremony Friday. The plant, called Niroth 2, is the second stage in a massive water treatment facility ...

Holly Robertson and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/phnom-penh-to-get-new-water-treatment-plant-65561/

City Hall plans new dumpsite, extended riverside

City Hall is digging a new eight-hectare landfill near Prey Sar prison as the city’s current dumpsite, which receives about 1,500 tons of garbage a day, is set be filled to capacity by December, according to local officials. Mr. Chamroeun said that the new landfill ...

Sek Odom and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-plans-new-dumpsite-extended-riverside-65042/

No end in sight for chronic Phnom Penh flooding

Phnom Penh residents should continue to brace for more flooding during this rainy season with no imminent fix in sight, officials said Tuesday. Flooding impacted much of the city as heavy rains fell Tuesday afternoon, causing traffic jams as motorists flocked to major thoroughfares in order ...

Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-end-in-sight-for-chronic-phnom-penh-flooding-64718/

Water plan for schools on tap

At nearly half of the Kingdom’s primary schools, students have to make a daily choice between drinking contaminated water or going thirsty, a dilemma the government hopes to soon banish with new minimum sanitation and safe water standards. The guidelines, which have yet to be finalised ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-plan-schools-tap

City Hall to train guards to drive garbage trucks

City Hall announced on Friday plans to train five security guards from each of Phnom Penh’s 12 districts to drive garbage trucks as back-up in the event of another strike by Cintri workers, part of a three-step solution to tackle the much-publicized shortcomings of the ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-to-train-guards-to-drive-garbage-trucks-64535/

City hall calls out Cintri’s rubbish collecting efforts—again

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on Monday slammed municipal waste disposal company Cintri for its poor performance in collecting the city’s garbage after a strike by trash collectors last week once again left the streets a mess. Cintri’s trash collectors ended their second strike of the ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-calls-out-cintris-rubbish-collecting-efforts-again-64048/

Cintri back to work in time for royal ceremony

Phnom Penh’s trash collectors ended their strike Wednesday after being promised increased salaries—leaving two days to clean the streets before Friday’s ceremony to inter the ashes of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk. Ngoun Sipheng, the operations manager for Cintri, which has a monopoly on waste ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cintri-back-to-work-in-time-for-royal-ceremony-63738/

Strike divides Cintri workers

While Phnom Penh’s garbage truck drivers returned to work yesterday following a brief strike, piles of refuse continued to mount in parts of the city, as trash collectors who had joined the drivers’ cause were continuing the strike alone as of 7pm. On Monday, drivers of ...

Pech Sotheary and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strike-divides-cintri-workers

City Hall brings in security guards to collect trash

District security guards, often used to break up demonstrations and beat protesters, were mobilized Tuesday to help clean up the city as hundreds of Phnom Penh’s trash collectors continued their strike over pay and working conditions. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said 60 Cintri trucks returned ...

Ben Sokhean and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-brings-in-security-guards-to-collect-trash-63583/

Water flow ‘still weak’ after pipe installation

After blocking a river for months, a construction project’s recently installed water pipes are delivering relief to only some of Battambang’s drought-stricken fields. More than 400 farmers in Bavel district blamed the Asian Development Bank-funded bridge for choking the river since construction began in December, leaving ...

Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-flow-%E2%80%98still-weak%E2%80%99-after-pipe-installation

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