Technical Assistance on Project Management and Non-Revenue Water Reduction Program

Client: Jiangyuan District Urban Construction and Investment Company

Funding: Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Duration: 2019-present

Location: Jilin Province, PRC

Contract Value: EUR 350,750

Loan Project Value: EUR 69.2 million

Catalogue: Rural and Urban Development

Project Description

The project will improve water and sanitation services in the district of Jiangyuan and in the urban center of Jiangyuan city in particular. 20,000 additional people are expected to benefit from access to a safely managed potable water supply service and 120,000 people should benefit from an improvement in the quality of their sanitation service in Jiangyuan city. In Shiren and Wangou alone, 96,000 people should gain access to a safely managed sanitation system. This project will also contribute to protecting water resources in the Changbai Mountains (located between China and North Korea), where two major rivers originate: the Songhua River and Yalou River. The Project has five components: (i) Construction of a new water treatment plant (20,000 m3 per day as a first phase) to supply the urban center of Jiangyuan and implement a non-revenue water reduction program; (ii) Upgrade of the existing Jiangyuan City Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) (20,000m3 per day) and building of new infrastructure for wastewater reuse (15,000 m3 per day); (iii) construction of a sewage sludge treatment plant (30 ton per day); (iv) construction of a WWTP with a capacity of 5,000 m3 a day in Shiren Town; and (v) construction of a WWTP with a capacity of 5,000 m3 a day in Wangou Town.

Services Provided by NAREE

Management of project components – NAREE assists the client in the initial project planning and project implementation co-ordination, supports the client in managing and overseeing the environmental, health and safety aspects for construction and operation of the project, and assists the client to meet its first reporting duty to AFD by providing assistance and training.

Support on Jiangyuan Water Company (JWC) staff in reducing non-revenue water - NAREE provides comprehensive technical assistance and training for reducing non-revenue water (NRW) under Water Supply Component of the project. NAREE completes the baseline survey, formulates an NRW Reduction Strategy relevant to the company’s context and resources with a plan of actions over several years, including required capital investment plan and associated schedules based on the targeted NRW reduction for near-, mid-, and long-term; assists JWC in the implementation of the most urgent steps described in the NRW Reduction Strategy, and in particular in the preparation of the tender documents related to AFD’s NRW Investment Reserve; and formulates a capacity building development plan to enable the JWC to execute the subsequent actions outlined in the NRW Reduction Strategy.