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Article: CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH REVOLUTIONIZES PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- October 31, 2007
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By Puy Kea*
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Oct. 31, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- A Cambodian public official has weathered assassination threats and a slow-moving bureaucracy in this post-conflict country to create one of the most trusted and safest water supply systems in Asia.
Ek Sonn Chan, the director of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA), said his agency was bureaucratic and full of incompetent staffers when he joined it in October 1993. "I fired many staff and my friends told me that I would be assassinated," he said.
But the 57-year-old "water champion," as the Asian Development Bank has called him, prevailed and transformed the authority into a ...