Safe drinking water project

Safe water will be made available to 58,500 people in the Polonnaruwa district by the Polonnaruwa Water Supply Scheme under the Township Infrastructure Development Project in 2011.

The project is funded by the Asian Development bank, (ADB) through the Government on the Secondary Towns and Rural Community based Water Supply and Sanitary Project. The Polonnaruwa Water Supply Project is one of the urban water supply schemes to be implemented under this project.

Sanken Lanka (Pvt) Ltd in association with Hyundai Engineering Company Ltd. as Sanken Hyundai JV signed a contract with the National Water supply and Drainage Board on January 26, 2009 at the National Water Supply and Drainage Board Head Office in Ratmalana to construct the Polonnaruwa Water Supply Project comprising a raw water transmission main treatment plant, treated water plant and head works on a design and build basis.

A group comprising Ranjith Gunatilake (Managing Director, Sanken Lanka Rohana Wannigama Deputy General Manager Sanken Lanka and Vipula Gunasekera, Project Manager, Sanken Lanka visited South Korea to see the Hyundai Engineering Head Office and the ongoing projects in Korea as part of the joint venture.

They were welcomed at the Seoul Head office by the Chairman of Hyundai Engineering with senior officials.

S.C. Amarasinghe Chairman of National Water Supply and Drainage Board with H. Choi of Hyundai Engineering Limited.