Sarajevo Secures Waste Water Loan
Sarajevo | 24 December 2009 |

Sarajevo
The World Bank has approved a 24 million euro loan to finance the rehabilitation of Sarajevo’s waste water infrastructure, which was heavily damaged by Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, it said in a statement.
The project to repair and replace waste water transmission pipes and other network rehabilitation “will reduce the population’s exposure to and reliance on highly polluted water,” the World Bank’s country manager for Bosnia, Marco Mantovanelli, said in the statement.
A waste water treatment plant was built in Sarajevo in the early 1980s for the 1984 Winter Olympics.
The plant, whose construction was also supported by the World Bank, was extensively damaged during the three-and-a-half-year siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces.
The World Bank currently has 15 active projects in Bosnia worth some 222 million euros.