Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project

The project experienced significant delay in implementation and in delivering the project outputs. This was mainly caused by the construction delay of the Huangpu Road WWTP, which was completed in August 2015, 1.5 years after the loan closing. The delay of constructing the Huangpu Road WWTP attributed mainly to (i) delay in securing domestic approval for the required flooding control permission, which took 4 years from the loan approval in June 2006 to the certificate issuance in June 2010, and (ii) prolonged procurement of the plant equipment, which took 3 years from the preparation of the bidding documents to the contract approval.