Mandalay to fulfill clean water demand by 2020

Mandalay City Development Committee’s Water and Sanitation Department has kicked off a plan to supply 100 percent of the demand for drinking water to all seven townships within the district by 2020. Currently, clean potable water supply in Mandalay is only available in five townships in Mandalay. In Aung Myay Tharzan, Chan Aye Tharzan, Maha Aung Myay and Chan Mya Tharsi, clean drinking water currently only meets 70pc of the demand, while Pyigyitagun township is only receiving 5pc of its drinking water supply, said Daw Khin May Htay, Head of the Water and Sanitation Department.

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