The Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties has met with of­fi­cials of the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) to dis­cuss the chal­lenges to wa­ter sup­ply in this coun­try.

A state­ment by the min­istry said that the IDB has been lend­ing tech­ni­cal sup­port to the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties and WASA to strate­gi­cal­ly im­prove the coun­try’s wa­ter sup­ply.

It said this im­prove­ment in the wa­ter sup­ply is one of the Min­istry’s strate­gic man­dates for the wa­ter sec­tor and fo­cus­es on ap­proach­es to achiev­ing con­tin­u­ous wa­ter sup­ply by re­duc­ing non-rev­enue wa­ter, man­ag­ing de­mand, in­sti­tu­tion­al strength­en­ing and build­ing cli­mate re­silience in the wa­ter sup­ply in­fra­struc­ture.

The team was led by the Di­vi­sion Chief for Wa­ter and San­i­ta­tion Ser­gio Cam­pos, who is based in Wash­ing­ton DC.

At the meet­ing, the IDB pre­sent­ed to the Min­is­ter and se­nior of­fi­cials from the Min­istries of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, the Min­istry of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment, and WASA a pro­posed ap­proach to com­pre­hen­sive­ly ad­dress the wa­ter sup­ply chal­lenges fac­ing the coun­try.