District Development Authorieies

Water roll-out viability depends on DDA support

Water PNG Managing Director, Raka Taviri, said this when asked following the signing of a K223 million loan between the PNG Government and the World Bank for the roll our of water supply and sanitation program.

Taviri said the operation costs to provide clean an safe water is very high and though they operated in 21 centres around the country, only a few centres were profitable.

He said in order to sustain their operations they have developed a concept to enter into agreements with DDA’s.