By Neou Vannarin - June 5, 2013
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that the rapid growth of Phnom
Penh’s population coupled with the rampant construction of new property
projects means that there would always be a shortage of water and
electricity supplies in the capital.
Speaking to a crowd of thousands who had gathered in Meanchey
district’s Niroth commune for the inauguration of a new $90 million
water treatment plant, Mr. Hun Sen said that despite committing to new
projects such as this one, growth is overtaking the government’s ability
to meet its citizens’ basic needs.
“There will never be enough water or electricity. So from now on, we
must be prepared because there are many new satellite cities being
built, and more houses in the city besides these, and demand is
increasing and will continue to increase,” Mr. Hun Sen said.
Mr. Hun Sen said that since 2004, the state-owned Phnom Penh Water
Supply Authority has added some 14,000 customers annually through its
2,000 km of pipes and that currently, 85 percent of Phnom Penh’s more
than 2 million residents were connected to the water supply.
Mr. Hun Sen’s comments came just two weeks after a massive power
outage in Vietnam knocked out electricity and water across Phnom Penh
for more than six hours.
The $90 million project, funded by loans from the Japan International
Cooperation Agency and Agence Francaise de Developpement, both
government aid arms, aims at providing clean water to those in Phnom
Penh still without access to piped water, as well as households in
Kandal province’s Takhmao City.....
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