DBSB Environmental Infrastructure Project - under Strategic Partnership Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea

The overall project development and global environmental objectives of the proposed project are to: (i) improve the quality of sanitation services in Soroca; (ii) reduce the discharge of pollutants, including nutrients, from Soroca municipal sources that flow into the Nistru River and, subsequently, into the Black Sea; and (iii) demonstrate and disseminate through feasibility studies and workshops, cost-effective and affordable technologies for municipal wastewater treatment for the potential benefit of similar projects for Moldova’s existing wastewater treatment plants, for those towns in Moldova that have no wastewater treatment, and for the countries that drain into the Black Sea. The proposed project would constitute of the World Bank’s Pilot Water Supply and Sanitation Project, local government contribution and GEF funds.