World Bank Helps Reduce Dhaka's Water Pollution
Bangladesh, Feb. 10 -- The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved a $370 million financing to improve sanitation and solid waste management services, reducing water pollution and restoring rivers and canals in Dhaka and surrounding areas.The Metro Dhaka Water Security and Resilience Program will strengthen local and national institutions' capacity to reduce water pollution in the greater Dhaka, which generates about half of the country's formal employment and one-third of its GDP. The program introduces a results?based system to help city corporations and Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) deliver measurable improvements on the ground. It will provide safely managed sanitation services to 550,000 people and improve...
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