Two contracts have been signed with the cities of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap to improve access to drinking water.
Following delivery of the extension to the Niroth plant in Phnom Penh earlier this year, VINCI Construction Grands Projets signed a new water-management contract on August 8 in the Cambodian capital. This contract, valued at US$23.5 million, calls for rebuilding the Chamkar Mon water treatment plant, located right in the city of Phnom Penh. The project will receive financing from Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
Starting in September, our teams will begin demolishing the existing plant, which has a capacity of 20,000 cubic metres a day. Subsequently, they will design-build a new plant with a much-improved capacity of 52,000 cubic metres a day. The project will require two years to complete. The second contract, valued at US$10.4 million, was signed on June 22, 2017 and concerns the water treatment plant in Siem Reap. This project involves designing and building a water-intake structure with a capacity of 30,000 cubic metres a day, increasing the plant’s current production capacity by 15,000 cubic metres a day, and installing a 6.5-km transfer pipe.
The contract calls for 14 months of construction and 4 months of start-up operations. Tourism development in Siem Reap, the site of the Angkor Wat temple complex, is what is driving the growing need for water.
