Infrastructure
Water and sanitation
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/
Kampong Chhnang disputants’ water woes ‘ignored’
Some 34 families in Kampong Chhnang’s Lorpeang village yesterday filed a new petition at the provincial hall urging authorities to intervene in a nine-year land dispute with KDC International, which villagers say has reached a bottleneck and is affecting their daily lives. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-chhnang-disputants-water-woes-ignored
Military readies 100 trucks for water crisis response
A hundred military trucks have been readied to transport water to drought-hit provinces, where hundreds of livestock deaths have been reported this month amid scorching heat. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-readies-100-trucks-for-water-crisis-response-111871/
Low reservoir levels in Siem Reap affecting thousands
More than 1,000 families in Siem Reap province are facing clean water shortages as the water level at Baray Teuk Thla reservoir has fallen for the first time in several years due to the especially harsh drought conditions confronting the Kingdom in recent months. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/low-reservoir-levels-siem-reap-affecting-thousands
Push on for ‘bio-sand’ water filters
Large-scale “bio-sand” filters have been found to be among the most cost-effective water cleaning methods in the Kingdom, according to a recent evaluation by the Trailblazer Foundation, which hopes to start installing them in villages soon. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/push-bio-sand-water-filters
In Phnom Penh, a looming sewage crisis
Renderings of Casa Meridian, a new condominium complex, suggest that its wealthy buyers are investing in a glistening 414-unit skyscraper overlooking a placid, ocean-blue body of water surrounding Koh Pich island, which is sprouting a number of luxury towers developed by the Overseas Cambodian Investment ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111364-111364/
City’s tap water gets thumbs up
Browse any online expat or tourist forum where people ask whether the tap water in Phnom Penh is safe to drink and you will likely find an adamant “No!” But according to water sanitation experts, these forums are wrong. Phnom Penh has some of the safest ...
Maddy Crowell
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23533/city---s-tap-water-gets-thumbs-up/
Water running out in Reay Pai
About 2,700 families in Kampong Cham province’s Reay Pai commune, where wells and ponds have almost dried up, could soon be left without any safe water. ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-running-out-reay-pai
Koh Kong town’s drinking water tainted during repairs
Koh Kong town was left without a clean water supply on Friday when the company responsible for the utility made repairs to a filter pipe. Koh Kong resident Ing Soth yesterday said the water was so dirty that the villagers could not use it at ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-towns-drinking-water-tainted-during-repairs