WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT,MINISTRY OF LAND, WATER AND ENVIRONMENTTHE PROJECT FOR URBAN WATER SUPPLY IN DEBUB REGION
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The Project for Urban Water Supply in Debub Region (Debarwa)
Water Resources Department, Ministry of Land, Water andEnvironment
Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.
Dai Nippon Construction

1. Project Implementation Schedule
Basic Design Study Stage
Exchange of Notes (Detail Design)
Detail Design Stage
Exchange of Notes (Construction)
Construction Stage: August, 2005 – June, 2006
: September 12, 2006
: October, 2006 – March, 2007: May 28, 2007
: June, 2007 – March, 2010
(Construction contract: Aug. 31, 2007)(Provisional hand­over: November, 2009)

2. Project Outline(1) Background of the Project
In response to the request from the Government of Eritrea, “The Study on Groundwater
Development and Water Supply for Seven Towns in Southern Region of Eritrea” wasconducted in collaboration with the Government of Eritrea and Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 1997 to 1998. Based on the result of this study, theGovernment of Eritrea requested to the Government of Japan for implementation of a grant
aid project for construction of water supply facilities, on October, 1998. However, thisrequest was interrupted due to outbreak of the border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Later, JICA dispatched a supplemental study mission on February, 2005. Following this, abasic design study was conducted targeting the four towns in Debub region on August, 2005
to June, 2006. Based on this basic design, the “Exchange of Notes” for implementation of
the Project was concluded between the Government of Eritrea and the Government of Japanon September 12, 2006.
(2) Planning framework of the Project
The Project consists of construction of the water supply facilities in the four towns of(1/3)

Debarwa, Mai­dima, Dekemhare, and Adi­keyih, in order to improve the living condition ofthe people of the four towns by supplying safe potable water.
The planning framework of each town is as follows. The target year of each town is set at2015.
Debarwa

Mai­dima

DekemhareAdi­keyih

PlannedZone 01,02,03,

Adi­ghaba, Hadish

Dekemhare,

Hadamu, Haineba,

ServiceAdi­gheda, Adi­logo,Adi, Milad­manta,

Maiwerki, Amhur,Heshemele, Unabur,AreaHalhare

Mai chew

Hadam, Metsale

Maalewya

Planned

30,50026,00048,00046,000Served（Including existing（Including existing（Including existing（Including existing

Populationfacility）facility）facility）facility）

Planned

1,370 m3/day

550 m3/day

1,800 m3/day

2,420m3/day

Supply（Excluding.

（Excluding.

（Excluding.

（Excluding.

Volumeexisting facility）

existing facility）

existing facility）

existing facility）(3) Project Facility and Contract AmountThe project facility and contract amount of each town is as follows.
Debarwa

Mai­dima

DekemhareAdi­keyih

Borehole construction

6 nos.

9 nos.

­4 nos.

Pump facility

10 nos.

10 nos.

8 nos.

11nos.

Transmission pipeline

14,800m

12,400m

23,040m

19,790m

Booster pumping station

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­

1 no.

500m3, 50m3

300m3

1,100m3

700m3, 50m3

9,834m5,681m13,800m

1,091m

4 nos.

9 nos.

10 nos.

6 nos.

309,430
thousand Yen

221,090
thousand Yen

380,002
thousand Yen

408,015
thousand Yen

Reservoir
Distribution pipeline
Service facility（Publicfountain）
Contract AmountThe above works have been completed on November, 2009 and the facilities have been
provisionally handed over to each town administration. The additional work for flood
protection of the facilities (contract amount: 20,776 thousand Yen) was approved by JICA
and the work is on­going and is scheduled to be completed on February, 2010. Thus, thetotal contract amount is 1,339,313 thousand Yen (approx. USD 13 million).

(4) Expected Project EffectBy implementation of the Project, total served population of the four towns is expected to beincreased from 20,000 in year 2005 to 150,000 in year 2015. This will greatly contribute toattain “urgent action plan for national water supply and sanitation: By the year 2015, 60% of
the population of rural area is to be served safe potable water”.
It is noted that the service connection work from newly constructed distribution pipeline toeach house/building is to be conducted by each town administration, after the Project iscompleted.
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