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NEWS WATER & WASTEWATER ASIA | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021 ADB AND TIMOR-LESTE SIGN US$47M LOAN TO PROVIDE WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SERVICES The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Timor-Leste have signed a US$47 million loan to help provide safe, reliable, and affordable water supply and sanitation services to about 62,000 people living in Lospalos, Viqueque, and Same. The Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Project will finance the construction of new facilities for water supply and sanitation services, including 14 water reservoirs and seven water treatment plants. It will also help rehabilitate and expand 130km of the area’s water distribution network, install water meters for 10,000 households, and build 12 public toilets and three septage treatment facilities. Sunil Mitra, country director for Timor-Leste for ADB, said: “A growing population is putting pressure on existing water sources and supply services in the three cities, which are operating beyond capacity. The project will make the cities more liveable by building infrastructure to provide safe water and sanitation services, and strengthening governance and institutional capacity. The project will also help reduce poverty and inequality by installing free water connections for women, the poor, and vulnerable groups.” The project will be co-financed by a $3 million grant from the Global Environmental Facility, which ADB will administer. The grant will finance the purchase of water meters, control systems, and other equipment, as well as consulting services aimed to strengthened the project’s climate resilience. Timor-Leste’s urban population has increased 4.2% every year since 2008. Only 34% of urban residents had access to a piped water supply network as of 2015, and the water supply remains unreliable. The project will help the Ministry of Public Works, the Municipal Water, Sanitation, and Environmental Services, and the new state-owned water utility Bee Timor-Leste (BTL) plan, deliver, operate, and maintain the country’s water supply and sanitation infrastructure in the long run. It will create a socially and gender-inclusive institutional development road map to guide the transfer of urban water supply and sanitation services to BTL. The project will enhance women’s participation in the water sector by providing training and developing a customer-service feedback mechanism. BLACK & VEATCH PROVIDES PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF POTABLE WATER CONVEYANCE SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN NEVADA Black & Veatch has been selected by the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to perform preliminary and final design services for the Horizon Lateral, a US$1.6 billion water conveyance system that will strengthen water delivery service for its customers. The system is expected to include approximately 27 miles of pipeline between 72-120 inches in diameter, and approximately seven miles of tunnelling through hard rock and soft ground. There also will be two large-scale pumping stations, multiple rate-of-flow control facilities, interconnections with existing transmission laterals, and new reservoir storage with a total capacity of 40-100 million gallons. As a wholesaler comprised of seven local water and wastewater agencies, SNWA provides treatment and delivery services and manages long-term water resources for more than 2.3 million residents in southern Nevada. The Horizon Lateral is dubbed the “largest” project proposed in SNWA’s 2020 Major Construction and Capital Plan. It will provide system redundancy and ensure continued, reliable service to nearly one million existing customers in the city of Henderson and southern region of the Las Vegas Valley. Jim Morley, project manager at Black & Veatch, said: “Constructing infrastructure of this magnitude in a growing, highly urbanised area like the Las Vegas Valley is extremely challenging. We are also aware of the need to protect surrounding sensitive environmental habitats and conserved lands.” Morley noted that the design team is advancing the preferred alignment and an alternative alignment through preliminary design unit such time as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Record of Decision (ROD) is complete. Services provided for both alignments include cost-risk analysis, hydraulic-optimisation, environmental assessments, and construction packages and deliver assessment. The planned in-service completion data for the project is around 2030. 10
SINGAPORE FOCUS WATER & WASTEWATER ASIA | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021 BRINGING ideas to live There are many ways to turn ideas into reality, but what does it take to make it a functioning business case? Water & Wastewater Asia speaks with PUB’s senior assistant director Winnie Tan, and senior manager Wong Xin Wei, who shed more insights into PUB’s commercialisation programme to address the challenges today’s water start-ups are facing. As Singapore’s national water agency, targeted at growth-stage start-ups PUB has been leveraging technologies to overcome the republic’s natural water constraints. The agency constantly invests in water research, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Furthermore, it is also part of the range of initiatives at the Singapore Water Exchange (SgWX) structured lessons with dedicated mentorship to help the start-ups develop new capabilities. (From left) Wong Xin Wei, senior manager; and Winnie Tan, senior assistant director, PUB and grows its water technologies to help water companies collaborate The commercialisation programme through collaborations with universities and co-innovate, so as to build a culminated in a Demo Day at the and private companies to develop new global marketplace of innovative water recently concluded Singapore solutions that can support its mission companies. International Water Week (SIWW) of supplying good water, reclaiming Online 2021. It was attended by used water, taming stormwater, and Elaborating on the purpose of the a range of participants, including resisting rising seas. commercialisation programme, investors and global water utilities. Winnie Tan, senior assistant director To enhance the commercialisation at PUB, told Water & Wastewater Asia Wong Xin Wei, senior manager at PUB, outcomes of promising locally- that it hopes to help water start-ups said: “We hope that these starts-ups developed technologies and in in Singapore “hone their business will continue to grow not only within line with Research, Innovation and model, sales and marketing strategies, Singapore through their product trials Enterprise (RIE) 2025’s focus on pitching skills”, and to impart to these and validation with PUB, but also translation and commercialisation, start-ups the knowledge, frameworks access new markets in the Asia-Pacific PUB kick-started a pilot and tools needed to grow their region and beyond.” commercialisation programme in collaboration with 500 Startups, a US-based accelerator and global business and access new partners or markets. FROM INNOVATION TO COMMERCIALISATION venture capital firm. Tan emphasised that the start-ups that In Tan’s perspective, transforming new participated in this programme have ideas into technologies and ultimately The commercialisation programme innovative technologies that are “key commercially viable products requires is aimed at supporting start-ups to Singapore’s water management”. several factors. She explained: “Firstly, by building their capabilities and Furthermore, PUB plays an active part water start-up founders are very accelerating their growth, and is in the programme curation to blend technically competent individuals. They 11
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