Putting Central Asia on the map

The EBRD stepped up its water sector lending activities in Central Asia last year. Wastewater needs will demand further support in the future.

The EBRD’s lending activity in Central Asia took an important step forward in 2009, as the bank signed its first ever water deals in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, whilst building on prior commitments in Tadjikistan.

The vodokanal (water utility) in the Kazakh city of Shymkent was privatised around six years ago, and in 2009, the EBRD extended an ...

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