Project Description
The Government of Sri Lanka is implementing a project to improve water supply and sanitation in the urban areas of the northern and north western dry zones of the country, namely Chilaw, Puttalam, Mannar and Vavuniya. The project comprises 3 parts: (i) Improve and expand water supply and sanitation infrastructure facilities; (ii) strengthen water sector institutions; (iii) build project management and implementation capacity. The project will not only support water resource development, rehabilitation and construction of new treatment facilities, transmission and distributions systems but also implement a comprehensive non-Revenue water (NRW) program, which will include installation of bulk water meters as well as a leak detection program. It will also focus on communal and household sanitation, septage management and disposal systems.
SMEC was engaged as Design, Construction Supervision and Management Support Consultants (DCSM) to review the designs prepared by the Project Preparation Technical Assistance (PPTA), prepare detailed engineering designs and provide Construction supervision for the water supply and sanitation scheme components. Scope also includes delivery of the outputs relating to safeguards compliance, community mobilization and benefit monitoring and evaluation
