Jiangxi Integrated Rural and Urban Water Supply and Wastewater Management Project

The development objective of the Jiangxi Integrated Rural and Urban Water Supply and Wastewater Management Project for China are: (a) to increase access to and improve operating efficiency of water supply services, and (b) to pilot provision of improved wastewater management, in selected counties in Jiangxi Province. It has three components. First component, expansion, rehabilitation, and modernization of water supply system is to construct, upgrade, repair and/or rehabilitation of urban and rural water supply infrastructure including water intake works, water treatment works and water distribution works such as pump stations, transmission and distribution pipelines and control valves; and (ii) installation and/or replacement of urban and rural household water service connections and corresponding water meters; Second component, demonstration of rural wastewater management is to design, construction and trial operation of wastewater management system in Zhajin town in Xiushui County, such a system to comprise a treatment plant, sewerage pipelines, household sewer connections as well as related public outreach and system management, operation and maintenance; Third component, public engagement and project management is to implement of a program to integrate public and community participation into the Project, such a program to include such activities as: (i) public dissemination, mobilization, and training (including media outreach); (ii) establishment of community participation mechanisms; (iii) promotion of women’s participation in Project activities through inter alia gender-sensitive needs assessment; (iv) participatory design for household sewers connections; (v) participatory management of local water supply systems; (vi) participatory monitoring of water quality; (vii) public participation in water supply and wastewater management system operation & maintenance; and (viii) behavioral change campaigns.