Water: News Releases

ADB and the Uvurkhangai Provincial Government of Mongolia today inaugurated a new wastewater treatment plant in the provincial capital Arvaikheer.

ADB and the Government of the Lao PDR today signed grant agreements worth $125.5 million in total for three projects in the tourism and urban sectors.

ADB and Mongolia today marked the beginning of a $1.4 million technical assistance project with a workshop aimed to strengthen water governance at the river basin level and scale up lessons learned for application across Mongolia.

Six images depicting different aspects of Asia’s water challenges have won prizes in the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Youth Water Photo Competition.

More than 800 gathered today at the Asian Development Bank headquarters in Manila for the opening of the Asia Water Forum 2018, focusing on “Information, Innovation, and Technology.”

ADB's Board of Directors has approved a $41.18 million grant to rehabilitate and expand climate-resilient water supply and sanitation infrastructure to improve the delivery of urban services in the southeast area of Dushanbe.

ADB's Board of Directors has approved $20 million in additional loan financing to expand the scope of an ongoing wastewater treatment project to an extra five fast-growing aimag (province) centers of Mongolia.

ADB's Board of Directors has approved a $150 million loan for a project that will improve municipal solid waste management in 10 counties and county-level cities in the Xiangjiang River watershed in Hunan Province.

ADB's Board of Directors has approved a loan of $130 million to improve access to community-managed water supply and sanitation in 20 urban municipalities of Nepal.

ADB's Board of Directors has approved financing of up to $500 million for a MFF that will develop climate-resilient water supply, sewerage, and drainage infrastructure in at least 10 cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.