Price of Water Spikes as Sihanoukville Shortages Drag On

4 April 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Sihanoukville / Water resources
Anco Water Supply Co.Ltd / EdC / Eletricite du Cambodge / Kbal Chhay Waterfall / O’Pi water spring / Pi commune / Prek Tup Lake / Reservoirs / Sihanoukville / Sihanoukville province / water shortages

As Sihanoukville’s water shortage drags on, the price of water being delivered by private suppliers has skyrocketed with residents and business owners growing ever more desperate to get clean water into their homes, hotels and restaurants. Over the past week, since a reservoir supplying the city with water completely dried up, the price of 2,000 liter tanks of clean water from Sihanoukville’s O’Pi water spring has more than doubled, rising from about $20 to more than $50, according to business owners and local officials. Some 60 percent of the city has access to little or no running water, according to officials. …

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