Infrastructure
Water and sanitation
Water utility widens revenue stream
The capital’s listed water utility inaugurated a new treatment facility yesterday that will increase its production capacity of clean water by 30 percent, and add to its revenue stream – a move likely to impress its shareholders. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/water-utility-widens-revenue-stream
Utility bills slashed for many
The government is to standardize water and electricity rates for factory workers and students in a bid to stop them being ripped off by unscrupulous landlords. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37293/utility-bills-slashed-for-many/
Rural access to water, sanitation improves
According to the report, the number of people living in rural areas who had access to clean water increased from half in 2015 to 53 percent in 2016, while access to sanitation, such as proper toilets, increased nearly 10 percent to 56 percent. ...
City sewage plan mooted
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has finalised a sewage management master plan for Phnom Penh, which is in dire need of a wastewater treatment plant, officials said yesterday. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-sewage-plan-mooted
Japan wades in on Tonle Sap algae
The Japan International Cooperation Agency has agreed to oversee a project to help recover water quality in the Tonle Sap lake in response to the appearance of a large bloom of algae. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36423/japan-wades-in--on-tonle-sap-algae/
Nordic nations eye investment in Cambodia
Companies from Europe’s frigid north are taking steps toward moving into the fish and environmental industries in Cambodia’s warmer climes. ...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nordic-nations-eye-investment-in-cambodia-126253/
Water authority overcharges village residents
Representatives for nearly 50 families protested yesterday asking the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) to rectify a clerical error that led to high monthly water bills for residents of two communities. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34915/water-authority-overcharges-village-residents/
Families protest water restrictions in Poipet
Nearly 50 families from a village in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town yesterday protested to demand that a private utilities company stop restricting water supply in their area because they didn’t have enough water to drink and irrigate their crops. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-protest-water-restrictions-poipet
France loans €30M for water plant expansion
The French Agency for Development has granted a 30 million euro, or $31.1 million, loan for the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) to expand one of its four water plants and increase its water distribution in the capital. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/france-loans-eu30m-water-plant-expansion
Study links toilet usage, height
A new study has found that open defecation, which is still commonly practised in Cambodia, has direct links to reduced heights in children, with a decrease in the practice over five years leading to increases in height. ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-links-toilet-usage-height
Natural drainage routes replaced by concrete cause severe floods
As floods have been raging on in many provinces, especially in the outskirts of the capital, locals are demanding the government inspect all boreys, factories and other developments in affected areas to ensure that there are proper drainage and road systems. ...
Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/natural-drainage-routes-replaced-concrete-cause-severe-floods
Cintri says it is owed up to $20M by Phnom Penh residents
Phnom Penh’s much-maligned waste-collection firm Cintri yesterday used a meeting with City Hall to ask for help in collecting between $10 million and $20 million in unpaid fees it says it’s owed by residents in the capital. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cintri-says-it-owed-20m-phnom-penh-residents
Officials discuss future Kep developments
Tourism Ministry officials held a meeting yesterday to discuss a project to develop a tourist port in Kampot province and a planned drainage system for Kep’s Crab Market – two tourism infrastructure projects backed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/officials-discuss-future-kep-developments
Bavet SEZ unequipped to treat its wastewater: ministry
The Ministry of Environment said yesterday that a recently constructed water-treatment facility at the Manhattan Special Economic Zone in Svay Rieng is unable to deal with most of the polluted water generated by factories at the site, and that 70 per cent was being dumped ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bavet-sez-unequipped-treat-its-wastewater-ministry
Over 83 pct of Cambodia's urban dwellers have access to clean water: minister
More than 83 percent of Cambodia’s urban residents have currently access to clean water, up from only 60.5 percent in 2012, Minister of Industry and Handicraft Cham Prasidh said on Thursday. ...
Shanghai Daily Team
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=331482
Japan helps expand water supply
The launching ceremony of a project for the expansion of water supply systems in Kampong Cham and Battambang, financed with Japanese grant aid assistance, took place yesterday in Battambang City in the presence of Prime Minister Hun Sen and Kumamaru Yuji, Japan’s ambassador to Cambodia. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27549/japan-helps-expand-water-supply/
Water supplier blames losses on forex rates
Listed utility Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) said in a filing to the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX) yesterday that a sharp decline in net profit during the first three months of the year was the result of exchange rate fluctuations. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/water-supplier-blames-losses-forex-rates
Japan helps with Kampot’s water supply
A groundbreaking ceremony for a Kampot water treatment plant was held yesterday in the presence of Japan’s Ambassador to Cambodia Yuji Kumamaru as well as Cham Prasidh, the Minister of Industry and Handicrafts. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26116/japan-helps-with-kampot---s-water-supply/
Meeting Needs sees Cambodia water project near completion
A major water, hygiene and sanitation project co-funded by industry charity Meeting Needs is bringing clean water to almost 1,000 people in the Siem Reap Province of Cambodia. ...
Meet Pie's Team
http://www.meetpie.com/Modules/NewsModule/newsdetails.aspx?newsid=23028
Water distribution over: PM
The government’s two-month nationwide campaign to distribute water to those affected by drought officially ended yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced while speaking at a graduation ceremony at the Asia-Europe University in Phnom Penh. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25414/water-distribution-over--pm/
New water pumping station is ‘70% done’
Workers are labouring day and night to build a new pumping station at the Boeung Trabek reservoir to relieve the capital’s flood risk ahead of the rainy season, city authorities said yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-water-pumping-station-70-done
Animals die as Cambodia is gripped by worst drought in decades
Behind a clutch of huts that hug the major route between Cambodia’s capital and its famed Angkor temples, rice farmers Phem Phean and Sok Khoert peer into a cement hollow. ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/05/animals-die-cambodia-worst-drought-decades
Gov’t drought relief efforts can’t reach 500,000 people
Around 500,000 Cambodians who face water shortages still have not received government assistance since drought relief efforts began on April 26, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. ...
Sen David and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-drought-relief-efforts-cant-reach-500000-people
School budgets to be used to buy water
In an attempt to solve the water shortages plaguing schools across the country, the Minister for Education advised all schools to use money from their own budgets to buy water, despite some schools saying they do not have the funds to do so. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24540/school-budgets-to-be-used-to-buy-water/