The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has approved a $30 million loan to Ghanaian industrial conglomerate LMI Holdings for the construction of a first-of-its-kind privately backed water supply project. The 4,000m~3/d water treatment plant (WTP), which could be extended to 110,000m~3/d within ten years if successful, will supply the industrial zone of Dawa, and eventually the new city of Dawa. The plant's intake will be on the Lower Volta River near the town of Asutsuare, from where raw water will be pumped over 18km to the WTP. Treated water will then be pumped 9km to the industrial zone. The project will be owned and operated by Southern Utilities, a wholly owned subsidiary of LMI Holdings that operates the water distribution network in LMI Holdings' other industrial zone in Tema. "We have been a bulk water customer of Ghana Water for some time, and we are used to doing our own distribution," Obed Min-kah, project manager for water at Southern Utilities, told GWI. "The Dawa WTP is a bit different, but we have everything in place to proceed."
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