| China: Shanghai Urban
Environment Project |
| The proposed Shanghai Urban Environment
Project aims to support the implementation of urban environment goal of the country's
development strategy, and thereby help ensure that economic growth takes place in an
environmentally, and institutionally sustainable manner, developing innovative policies,
institutional reforms, and financing methods. Project components address: 1) Shanghai's
wastewater management, by financing both collection, trunk sewers, pumping stations,
wastewater treatment plants, as well as outfall and sludge treatment methods. Collection
systems will include either separate wastewater and storm-water collection systems, or
combined wastewater systems, that would include a main conveyor to the treatment plant,
incorporating full secondary treatment of effluents discharged through existing outfalls,
while sludge, and solid wastes will be disposed at selected landfills; 2) urban solid
waste management, to establish environmentally cost-effective municipal solid waste
management services in urban areas, by adopting user tariffs to ensure cost recovery of
municipal services, as well as adopting a market-oriented institutional arrangement for
the provision of municipal solid waste management services. On a pilot basis, a set of
administrative, and economic market-based instruments to support waste recycling, will be
introduced; 3) urban planning, and pilot upgrading, will assist in the planning for
institutional, and administrative frameworks, focused on the planning, construction, and
management goals for urban infrastructure improvements, implemented in a three-phase
adaptable program lending; 4) the Upper Huangpu River catchment environmental management,
to improve its environmental management, and protection of its water resources. To this
end, support to policy development, and physical investments will be provided , comprising
data collection, analysis of pollution sources, developing policy and investment
strategies; and, 5) institutional strengthening, and training, by supporting a range of
technical assistance, and capacity building activities in the implementation of agencies
supporting the Shanghai Municipal Government.** |
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