Strengthening Sustainable Water Supply Services through Domestic Private Sector Providers in Cambodia
With the exception of Myanmar, Cambodia has the lowest access to piped water supply in the South East Asia region, which was estimated to be 21 percent in 2015. Less than one in ten rural households (7 percent) have access to piped water services o...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25833776/strengthening-sustainable-water-supply-services-through-domestic-private-sector-providers-cambodia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23769 |
| Summary: | With the exception of Myanmar, Cambodia
has the lowest access to piped water supply in the South
East Asia region, which was estimated to be 21 percent in
2015. Less than one in ten rural households (7 percent) have
access to piped water services on their premises, while for
urban households, three out of four households enjoy these
services (75 percent) (WHO and UNICEF, 2015). Against this
backdrop, the Government of Cambodia in its National
Strategic Development Plan 2014-2018 (Royal Government of
Cambodia, 2013) prioritizes the acceleration of access to
piped water services, in partnership with the domestic
private sector. Private water operators are licensed and
regulated by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft (MIH).
Scarce public domestic financial resources are solely
channeled to state-owned utilities and enforcement of
regulations is generally weak. With the exception of the
French Development Agency (AFD), most development partners
focus their grant and lending support on public utility
investments. In 2012 the private sector is already estimated
to provide 1.4 million Cambodians with piped water services,
with the immediate potential for expansion of existing
schemes covering another 2 million and further new schemes
that could viably be developed for another 3 million
Cambodians (Sy, Warner, & Jamieson, 2014) and ( (DFAT,
2014). Around 300 private sector utilities, around half of
which are licensed by the Ministry of Industry and
Handicraft (MIH), have a market share of almost 50 percent
of those with access to piped services, mostly situated in
rural towns and agglomerations of settlements, with 750 to
over 3000 household connections. Driven by demand for higher
services, the private sector in Cambodia will be an
important driver for increasing access to piped water
supply, especially in the rapidly urbanizing rural growth
centers of Cambodia. |
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