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2010
KAMPOT WATER
SUPPLY UTILITY
KAMPOT CAMBODIA
B Y
S O R N S O M O L I N E
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3
1.1 Project Scope......................................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Project Object........................................................................................................................ 3
2. Methodology ........................................................................................................................... 4
3. Location and Target Area........................................................................................................ 5
4. Affordability to pay................................................................................................................. 6
4.1 Water Fee .............................................................................................................................. 6
4.2 Water Connection Fee........................................................................................................... 8
4.3 Affordability to pay for Water Connection Fee .................................................................... 8
5. Poor Water Connection Policy.............................................................................................. 10
6. Water Tariff Policy ............................................................................................................... 11
6.1 Water tariff policy in Cambodia.......................................................................................... 11
6.2 Implementation of the National Water Supply Tariff Policy.............................................. 12
6.3 Water Tariff Structure in Kampot Province........................................................................ 13
6.4 Pro-poor Policy on Water Tariff Structure in Kampot Province ........................................ 13
7. Recommendation................................................................................................................... 15
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1. Introduction
MEK-WATSAN aims at supporting the participating Government of the Mekong Region attain
their water and sanitation related MDGs agreed in 2000, to halve the proportion of people
without access to improved water supply and sanitation services by 2015. Especially MEK-
WATSAN promotes pro-poor urban water conservation and demand management, integrated
urban environmental sanitation, and income generation for the urban poor through community-
based water and sanitation services.
The primary purpose of the project is to improve water supply and environmental sanitation for
at least 7,500 poor people or 75% of the poor in Kampot Town. The targeted area that was
selected for water supply is: Kampong Bay, Traeuy Kaoh, Kampong Kraeng commune. For
improving the sanitation condition in the Kampot town the project selected five more commune
as Kampong Kandal, Andoung Khmaer, Maekprang, Krang Ampil, Chum Kriel, and Trapaeng
Thum.
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- Implement pro-poor policy related to water connection , water tariff policy
- Establishing community based financing mechanisms to improved water supply and
sanitation;
- Assess affordability to pay and develop pro-poor water connection and tariff policy;
- Demonstrating approaches for improved Water Conservation and Demand Management.
2. Methodology
The field research was conducted to analyze the affordability to pay for water connection and
water tariff.
The household survey was used in the quantitative study. These household were selected based
on the location of water supply extension. An aerial photo and town maps were used to identify
the target villages that will be provided with water supply extension.
The survey contains 4 sections related to household characteristics, occupations, income and
expenditures, sources of water usage that contained the information about safe water service and
information about water system connection fee and the options related to affordability to pay for
water connection fee, health and sanitation, (see Annex I ). The entire household in the selected
village will be interviewed.
Table 1.2 provides a description on the survey coverage, sample and census statistics for the
target commune composing the present report. As the extension of water supply cover in 2
villages in Kampong Kraeng, 2 villages in Kampong Bay commune and 2 villages in Traeuy
Kaoh Commune, the sample used for surveying was conducted all the household that have not
access to Kampot water supply system.
Survey Result
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3. Location and Target Area
The Extension of Water Supply and Sanitation, and Monitoring Achievements towards Reaching
the MDGs in Kampot Town project covers nine communes where six communes i.e. Kampong
Bay, Traeuy Kaoh, Kampong Kandal, Andoung Khmaer, Krang Ampil and Trapaeng Thum
belong to Kampot Municipality and three communes i.e. Kampong Kraeng, Maekprang and
Chum Kriel belong to Toek Chhu district.
The project comprises of two main parts water supply extension and sanitation. The water supply
extension covers only three communes where Kampong Bay and Traeuy Kaoh commune belong
to Kampot Municipality and Kampong Kreang commune belong to Toek Chhue district. During
the kick off meeting with Kampot Water Supply Authority (KWSA), Department of Potable
Water Supply, MIME and the representatives of UN-HABITAT, It was agreed that the study
area covers only some parts of the nine communes close to the existing and proposed extension
water supply pipe lines. Figure 1 shows the study area.
LEGEND W E
Study Area S
Commune Boundary
District Boundary
0 1 2 3 Km
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Kampong Kraeng Commune
The population in this commune is amount 1,325 families in 2008 that consists 6,424 persons.
Among those families there are 390 families that will benefit from the extension of water supply.
Table 2: Beneficiaries village from water supply extension in Kampong Kraeng Commune
District Commune Village Number of family
Toek Chhou Kampong Kraeng Prey Thnot 142
Toek Chhou Kampong Kraeng Kampong Kraeng 248
Total 390
4. Affordability to pay
4.1 Water Fee
The socio-economic survey results show the reasons why households do not use pipe water as
following:
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Related to the question if family want to connect the water from Kampot water supply or not,
about 94 percent of household in Kampong Kraeng want to connect, 95 percent of household in
Kampong Bay provide positive idea on the water connection and 95 percent of household in
%
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94 94 94
90
80
70
60
Kampong Kraeng
50
Kampong Bay
40
Treuy Koah
30
20
10 5 3 3 4
3 2
0
Agreed Disagreed No Answer
Treuy Koah also want to connect from Kampot water supply. The majority of the household
about 94 percent in all the target area agree on the price of the water 1,400 riel per cubic meter.
The chat below show the percentage of household agree/disagree on the current water price
(1,400 Riel/cubic meter)
The percentage of household agree/disagree on the price 1,400 riel per cubic meter
The above chart shows that more than 94% of households agree to pay 1,400 Riel per cubic
meter for water fee.
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4.2 Water Connection Fee
Households were difficult to afford for the connection fee because it's very expensive for them.
The current cost of total connection is around 474,600 Riel (113 USD). Related to this cost, 78
percent of the households in Kampong Kraeng agreed to pay while 80 percent of the
households in Kampong Bay are also agreed to pay. Around 69 percent of household in Treuy
Koah agree to pay that cost.
%
90
80
78
80
69
70
60
Kampong Kraeng
50
Kampong Bay
40 Treuy Koah
28
30
19 17
20
10 4 3 3
0
Agreed Disagreed No Answer
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Kampong Kraeng Commune
About 19 percent of
Percentage of household on revolving fund option
total households in
in Kampong Kraeng
Kampong Kraeng
cannot afford the
connection fee. About 18% 13%
Option 1
13 percent of these are
21% Option 2
willing to choose
Option 3
Option 1 for the
No
connection to the pipe
5% Not Sure
water supply system, 18 43%
percent chose Option 2
and 5 percent chose
Option 3. Otherwise 43 percent of unaffordable household decided not connect to pipe water
supply system. They prefer to continue to use rain water, well and pond. About 21 percent are
not decided whether or not to connect to pipe water supply system. They will decide when the
pipe line has been installed to the village.
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Sangkat Treuy Koah
About 28 percent of the total households in Treuy Koah cannot afford the connection fee.
Among these, 11 percent are willing to choose the Option 1 for the connection to the pipe water
supply system, 22 percent chose Option 2 and 10 percent chose Option 3. Otherwise 40 percent
of unaffordable household decided not connect to pipe water supply system. They prefer to
continue to use rain water, well and pond. About 17 percent are not decided whether or not to
connect to pipe water supply system. They will decide when the pipe line has been installed to
the village.
17% 11%
Option 1
22% Option 2
Option 3
No
Not Sure
40% 10%
The most poignant costs of deficient water supply are borne by the poor. They pay higher prices
for water and suffer the most in terms of impacts to heath and lost economic opportunities. In
most towns, the poor do not have access to networked water system and are often forced to
depend on vendors who typically charge several times the unit cost of networked water and
additionally the quality of water is often inferior and deficient.
A deeper study into the problems of the poor would indicate that the critical issue is usually not
so much the tariff for water consumption but the high connection costs, which are a barrier. The
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Royal Government, therefore, rightly feel obliged to increase the quality and quantity of water
available to the poor by providing subsidy by whatever means possible as the best approach that
will provide financial and economic benefits for the poor.
So, far the Royal Governemnt has set up guideline for pro-poor water tariff as follows:
1. There should be block tariff by taking per unit volume of consumption as a principle,
which is set at less than the unit cost to small water user groups (which will be defined in
the actual work), and set higher than the average costs for a large volume water
consumer.
2. There should be facilities for poorest household unable to pay the cost of connection. The
Government should contribute or seek other financial sources in order to give limited
subsidies in terms of the costs of total connection fees. In such cases that this guideline
cannot be followed , there should be an alternative to provide a credit for the full payment
of connection cost to networks.
3. In cases where poor people live together in communities, action should be taken to
provide community standpipes for distribution of water supplies in order to reduce the
connection fees and provided that people in the community are responsible for the
connection costs and pay for the volumes they consumption.
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that the utility has lost the larger volume consumer sector, and the benefits of subsidized services
had not gone to the real poor.
Sihanouk Water Supply Unit has established a block tariff structure, based on the type of
customer and volume consumed similar to PPWSA and is aimed at larger consumers providing
subsidies to the smaller consumers. Again as a result volumes used by higher volume consumers
have been sharply declining, while those of low volume consumer have increasing.
In other towns in the country, a single tariff per unit approached has been in use based on the
type of consumer. These tariffs have been set up differently in accordance with the actual
conditions in each provincial town, prices per unit volume range from 500 Riel to 1,800 Riel per
cubic meter (m3). These different tariffs have resulted from user payments can often only sustain
existing networks and do not provide enough capital for expansion of coverage and/or services
responsive to consumers' demands.
The guideline on revolving fund for water connection developed for Kampot Water Supply and
Sanitation Project in Kampot Province was shared with the steering committee and explained to
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the community leaders. The meeting agreed on the connection fee of 474,600 Riel (113 USD) for
every household but the distance from main piped shall be 1-6 meter; other households shall pay
the additional connection by themselves. This will be the loan ceiling per household. The
repayment amount and period will be 6-12 months without interest for general household and
poor households.
On 25 January 2010, a steering committee workshop was conducted to disseminate the results of
the field survey on affordability to pay for water connection. The result shows that around 19%
of household in Kampong Kraeng, 28% of household in Kampong Bay and 28% of household in
Treuy Koah, are unable to afford for connection fee. The project steering commettee in
coordination with Kampot municipality and Toek Chhu District and representatives of the
community (Head of commune/sangkat, village chief) have focus on ensuring that all poorest
household are served on a priority basis and have access to the revolving fund. The list of poor
household has been determined based on the National Poverty Household Identification that
have been devided in two grades: Poor grade 1 and Poor grade 2. The detailed of criteria for
National poverty identification is in the report of Poverty Mapping.
Therfore, the steering committee also set the criteria for poor household based on the poor
household lists prepared by the National Poverty Identification and suggested the local
authorities to discuss and revise the list of poor household eligible for loan from the revolving
fund . Eligible households who desire to borrow the fund need to have legal property and to be
guarranteed by the village chief and approved by head of Commune/Sangkat.
List of beneficiary villages in Kampot
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Of the 1,954 households, 148 households are classified as poor in the target three communes.
About 55 households are poor grade 1 and 93 households are poor grade 2.
According to the survey of villagers in the project area on their willingness to access piped water
system and their affordability to pay for water connections and consumption, 72% of villagers in
Kampong Bay and Treuy Koah and 81% of villagers in Kampong Kraeng are ready to pay the
full cost of amount 474,600 Riel (113 USD).
The remaining 28% of target villagers in Kampong Bay and Treuy Koah and 19% of target
villagers in Kampong Kraeng are unable to afford the water connection fee show in the follows:
7. Recommendation
Based on a study on the option of establishing the block tariff for water that carried out by GRET
(NGO) shows that the single tariff is better than multiple tariff for Kampot town because in
Kampot town there are few business households, hotels, guesthouse and restaurants. The policy
of multiple tariff is designed to subsidize consummers use less of water and it will charge higher
cost for consummers use more water. The survey shows that the percentage of household
consummer are dominent about 98% of the total consummer, the percentage of commercial and
industial is about 1% and the percentage of government offive is about 1%. In this case, the
multiple tariff is not applicable and it will make KWS can not sustain.
The project aims to improve water supply and environmental sanitation for at least 7,500 poor
people or 75% of the poor in Kampot Town. The percentage of households that have access to
piped water in Kampot town is around 38% where, Kampot Municipality about 42% and in Toek
Chhu District is around 7%. In order to reach the goal of 75% access, it needs to increase the
percentage of people with access to piped water from the current situation. The result of survey
showed that the problems of the poor would indicate that the critical issue is usually not so much
the tariff for water consumption but the high connetion costs, which act as a barrier. Based on the
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result of survey, 94% of the total households are willing to pay for water tariff at 1,400 Riel and
the percentage of househod can afford for water connection fee is also higher that 70% of total
household.
However, with the revolving fund provided under this project allowing three options of
revolving fund and three instalements without interest rate for the poor, it can expect that the
remaining of those household will be able to afford water connections.
This project is providing strategic support to pro-poor policy at the local level focusing on
participatory involvement of the communities through capacity building and community
awareness campaigns. The current water prices 1,400 Riels per cubic meter should be affordable
to poor households as the current daily wage of unskill labour is about 10,000Riel (2.5USD) per
day.
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Annex 1
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
NATION RELIGION KING
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MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY MINE AND ENERGY
PROVINCIAL INDRUSTRY MINE AND ENERGY OF KAMPOT
KAMPOT WATER SYPPLY
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I. General Condition
1. Family condition
Address:……………..village……………..commune……………district……………province
Head of the family's name :…………………… Gender: male female Age:………...
Number of people in the family: ……………….
2. Distant from the house to main pipe :……………… meters
3. Which grade of poverty of your family has been classified?