World Bank Loan for Sewage Systems in Eight East China CitiesAnhui Province in east China plans to build sewage discharge and treatment facilities in eight cities along the Huaihe River, with the help from a World Bank Loan of 71.25 million US dollars.Local officials say the Huaihe Water Pollution Control and Prevention Project includes 650 km of sewage discharge pipelines, 27 sewage pumping stations, two sewage treatment plants, equipment upgrading in waste water monitoring centers and personnel training. The whole project is expected to cost a total of 154 million US dollars. The province started to build nine waste water treatment plants along the river in 1998, when the Chinese government made a decision to clean the river, one of the most polluted, which runs through four provinces. The Huaihe River originates in central China's Henan Province and empties into the Yellow Sea via Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. |
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