ZAGREB, May 3 (Hina) - Representatives of the World Bank, Croatia's Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development and Croatian Waters have successfully completed negotiations on a EUR40 million World Bank loan for a project
aimed at controlling the pollution of coastal cities, the bank's Zagreb office said on Monday.
ZAGREB, May 3 (Hina) - Representatives of the World Bank, Croatia's
Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development and Croatian
Waters have successfully completed negotiations on a EUR40 million
World Bank loan for a project aimed at controlling the pollution of
coastal cities, the bank's Zagreb office said on Monday.#L#
The current waste water management is not satisfactory, with water
pollution representing a problem for many cities along the coast as
less than 12 percent of waste water is purified.
The aim of the project is to improve the quality of the Adriatic
seawater in accordance with European Union provisions concerning
environmental protection, and thus boost tourism.
The project, likely to include Krk, Opatija, Biograd, Zadar and
Rijeka, has been supported by the government's recently drawn up
national environmental protection activity plan.
The World Bank has funded 22 projects in Croatia since 1993 with more
than US1.2 billion.
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