Ground Broken on Bakeng Water Treatment Plant, Chamkarmorn Plant Inaugurated

• 1 February 2021
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Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen broke ground on the morning of 01 February on a huge water treatment plant project in Bakeng and inaugurated another one in Chamkarmon. Both plants in total will be able to produce over 450,000 cubic metres of clean water per day by 2024.

The Bakeng water treatment plant will be built with a budget of about US$190 million, co-financed by the French Development Agency, the European Investment Bank, and the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, and will be implemented by Vinci Construction Grands Projects.

The project is located in Sangkat Bakeng, 10km north of the Chroy Changvar Bridge. It’s a very large location, suitable for submerging large-diameter pipes to cross the bottom of the Tonle Sap river and connect to some areas in Phnom Penh.

The plant is the largest water treatment plant ever built in Cambodia and will be implemented in two phases. The first phase will produce up to 200,000 cubic metres/day of clean water by the first quarter of 2023, while the second phase will be able to produce 400,000 cubic metres/day by the first quarter of 2024.

This project has been studied since 2017, and the agreement for the first phase was signed in November 2019 and the second phase was announced in early 2020. (Read more and more)

On the same day, PM Samdech Hun Sen also inaugurated the Chamkarmon water treatment plant, on which the expansion was completed since October 2019.

With this recent expansion, the Chamkarmon plant can now produce water up to 52,000 cubic metres/day. The project also includes the extension of a 580-kilometre water pipeline network, through which about 280,000 people will receive clean water directly from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, and especially the small communities in southern suburbs of Phnom Penh.

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