Guanabara Bay stage two moves ahead
- From: Vol 3, Issue 4 (April 2002)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country: Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO HAS submitted detailed proposals for foreign loans totalling US$402 million for the second stage of the Guanabara Bay clean-up programme.
The state secretary for water resources, Luiz Henrique Lima, handed over the documents last month to Brazil’s international affairs secretariat to consider contracting the loans abroad.
Around US$320 million of the loan is expected to be used in sewage projects and the priority areas are the low income districts of Alcantara in Sao Goncalo on the east side ...
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