The Government of Mongolia and the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) have broken ground on a $93 million Advanced Water Purification Plant (AWPP) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
This marks the first major infrastructure project in the $350 million Mongolia Water Compact.
“The U.S. Government is supporting Mongolia’s economic growth using grant financing when possible because we believe that growing democracies benefit from programs that do not lead to too much debt,” said Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, president of Mongolia.
The new state-of-the-art AWPP will supply up to 50 million cubic meters of water annually, boosting the bulk water supply production capacity in Ulaanbaatar by 65 percent over its lifetime. The AWPP is part of a phased, five-year compact that will ultimately increase Ulaanbaatar’s water supply production capacity by 80 percent.
“Today marks a new chapter in the U.S.’s partnership with the people of Mongolia,” said A