WB provides loan to improve access to water, sanitation in W

时间：2007-06-28 08:54:31

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BEIJING, June 28-- The World Bank's board of executive directors has approved a loan of 25 million U.S. dollars to help improve access to water and sanitation1 in west China, the WB China office announced on Wednesday.

 

The Western Provinces Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene2 Promotion3 Project is intended to increase the access of poor communities to sustainable and equitable4 water supplies, sanitation and hygiene promotion services by adopting an integrated and participatory approach, which can be replicated5 in other provinces, according to a WB statement.

 

The total investment costs are 75.36 million dollars, with 25 million dollars of loans from the WB, 25 million U.S. dollars of grants from the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) and 25.36 million dollars from the participating provinces of Shaanxi and Sichuan.

 

According to the WB, the project will be implemented6 in 25 counties.

 

More than 60 percent of the investment will be spent on improving access to safe drinking water, through the construction of piped water supply systems, rainwater collection systems and wells. All schools within the project areas of Shaanxi Province and selected schools in Sichuan Province will be supplied with safe water.

 

More than a quarter of the investment will go into improving environmental sanitation, by building or upgrading household, public and school toilets, hand washing and drainage facilities, and garbage drop-off points.

 

The project will also support hygiene promotion, as well as providing management and technical training.

 

More than 300 million people in China have no access to safe and clean drinking water, most of them in comparatively poor rural areas.

 

The government has pledged to provide safe and clean drinking water for 160 million rural people by 2010, and for all rural people by 2015.

 
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1 sanitation GYgxE     
n.公共卫生，环境卫生，卫生设备
参考例句：
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
2 hygiene Kchzr     
n.健康法，卫生学 （a.hygienic）
参考例句：
  • Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.他们的课程包括基础卫生学和医疗知识。
  • He's going to give us a lecture on public hygiene.他要给我们作关于公共卫生方面的报告。
3 promotion eRLxn     
n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传
参考例句：
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。
4 equitable JobxJ     
adj.公平的；公正的
参考例句：
  • This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
  • Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。
5 replicated 08069c56938bbf6ddcc01ee2fd848af5     
复制( replicate的过去式和过去分词 )； 重复； 再造； 再生
参考例句：
  • Later outplant the seedlings in a replicated permanent test plantation. 以后苗木出圃栽植成重复的永久性试验林。
  • The phage has replicated and the donor cells have lysed. 噬菌体已复制和给体细胞已发生裂解。
6 implemented a0211e5272f6fc75ac06e2d62558aff0     
v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效
参考例句：
  • This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

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