August 29 (SeeNews) - German development bank KfW and Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, SECO, have agreed to grant a total of 18.3 million euro ($22.1 million) to Bosnia's Zenica municipality to finance a wastewater project, the municipal government said.
KfW will grant 13.5 million euro, while SECO will issue the remainder to finance a project for collection and treatment of waste waters, the Zenica municipal government said in a statement on Monday.
The current project is an extension to a project launched earlier which focused on water supply and drainage of waste waters in the municipality. It foresees the continued construction and reconstruction of the main wastewater collectors in Zenica, as well as the construction of a wastewater treatment plant, and the complete separation of urban waste water and industrial wastewater.
The project will be carried out by state-owned company Vodovod i Kanalizacija.
Zenica is the fourth-largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the adminisrative centre of the Zenica-Doboj Canton located in one of Bosnia's two entities, the Federation. The other is the Serb Republic.
($=0.829052 euro)