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sur le développement des zones arides et semi-arides

Titre : Basrah Water Project. Providing safe drinking water to Basrah’s population

Pays/Région : Irak

IATI Identifiant  : XM-DAC-7-PPR-4000004383

Durée : Planned start date : December 1, 2020 // Planned end date : November 30, 2023

Description
The project objective is to improve water and health security in Basrah. The output is to ensure that by 2024, as many as 960,000 Basrah residents have improved and sustainable access to safe water.

In order to accomplish this, the following interventions will take place : 1. Improve access to safe drinking water in 100 schools in deprived areas in south Basrah by installing small-scale water desalination and disinfection units beside new water tanks and piping systems, benefiting 100,000 children (UNICEF). 2. Improve access to safe water by increasing the power supply for, and automating the operation of, the R-Zero project, benefiting 960,000 individuals (UNICEF). 3. Improve access to safe drinking water by rehabilitating existing non-functional plants and adding more plants to the water network, benefiting 50,000 individuals (UNDP). 4. Improve access to safe drinking water through the provision of specialized unaccounted-for-water equipment which will be used to reduce water leakage, benefiting 75,000 individuals (UNICEF).

Mise en oeuvre  : UNICEF

Budget  : EUR 6.000.000

Présentation

Objectives / Purpose of activity (pdf)