Water in Switzerland

  • EBRD, SECO modernize wastewater treatment plant in Tajikistan

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/10/17 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Improvment(EBRD) and the Swiss National Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) have joined forces to enable Tajikistan's Khujand city to modernize its sewerage network and to reconstruct an old wastewater treatment plant that had fallen into disuse next the collapse of the Soviet Union. This cooperation follows two previous successful projects by the EBRD and SECO to improve the city's water supply, the bank said on October 16. The EBRD is providing a $3.5 million loan, and SECO is providing a capital grant of $5.35 million, for Khujand Water Company, the water and wastewater utility.