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Article: CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH REVOLUTIONIZES PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- October 31, 2007
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Puy Kea*
Inter Press Service English News Wire
10-31-2007
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 model ...