EIB Funds Syrian Water Project

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide €55m ($72.7m) to improve the water supplies and wastewater collection and treatment of north-west Syria.

The project will improve water and wastewater services for over 370,000 inhabitants of 200 villages and will strengthen the region’s environmental sustainability by reducing wastewater discharges into the Mediterranean Sea.

The project will be carried out near the city of Banias and surrounding villages as well as in villages of the four river catchments of Hreisun, Jobar, Al Ghamkah and Al Dabousiah, which drain wastewater into the Mediterranean Sea.

The project is being carried out under the EU Horizon 2020 initiative, one of the priorities of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), which aims to reduce pollution in the Mediterranean sea by 2020.