Water utility widens revenue stream
The capital’s listed water utility inaugurated a new treatment facility on April 5 that will increase its production capacity of clean water by 30 percent, and add to its revenue stream – a move likely to impress its shareholders. Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) officials opened the Niroth 2 water treatment plant on the southern outskirts of Phnom Penh, a $61 million complex that will allow the company to produce an additional 130,000 cubic metres of water per day to supply a growing and thirsty city. The new facility increases the company’s total production capacity to 560,000 cubic metres a day, allowing it to expand services to Takhmao City in Kandal province.
