Juba, South Sudan, 23 July 2015
The Government of Japan will provide an additional fund for the Project for Improvement of Water Supply System of Juba, with total disbursement amounting to approximately 4.4 million Japanese yen equivalent to about 40 million US dollars, to address the cost increase due to the political crisis and keep the project scale as originally planned.
This project aims to improve access to safe water for people in Juba by expanding the capacity of water treatment and scaling up water distribution. In this project, Japan set up a new water treatment plant, a service reservoir, 8 water tank stations and 120 water tapping points in Juba. By the end of September 2017, as much as 390 thousand of Juba residents will have ready access to safe drinking water at home, thereby enabling people to enjoy the rights to pursue lifestyles we wish to pursue.
“This project not only fulfills the basic needs of individuals but also facilitates the healthy and productive life of women and children in the communities. Reduction of the work for fetching water will immediately emancipate women and children from labor: women will have extra hours to engage in other employment opportunities, and children, in their turns, will learn better in the newly-gained hours of studies. Furthermore, improved public health through the use of safe, stable water supply will decrease the morbidity from waterborne diseases such as cholera, diarrhea and typhoid”, says Mr. KIYA Masahiko, Ambassador of Japan.
For more information, please contact:
Yasuo Matsunami, First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in South Sudan Tel: +211(0)959003152 Email: yasuo.matsunami@mofa.go.jp