---
title: Bankable water solutions for Myanmar and Zambia
description: Myanmar and Zambia, like many other countries, urgently need to increase investment in sustainable projects to improve water security, enhance the health of their river basins, and support economic growth.
image: https://latest.earthhour.org/hubfs/2_sun_xiaodong__1_.jpg
---

[![WWF_Logo_RGB_100x88.89_small](https://latest.earthhour.org/hs-fs/hubfs/WWF_Logo_RGB_100x88.89_small.png?width=90&height=101&name=WWF_Logo_RGB_100x88.89_small.png "WWF_Logo_RGB_100x88.89_small")](https://www.panda.org)

This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached.

- There are no suggestions because the search field is empty.

- **×
- en**
  
  ×
  
  Country
  
  
  
  Language
  
  English
  
  Spanish
  
  
  
  
  
  CONFIRM
- [GIFTS](http://wwf.panda.org/virtual_gifts/)
- [Donate to WWF](https://wwf.panda.org/support_wwf/)

# Bankable water solutions for Myanmar and Zambia

Posted on 21 February 2019

Myanmar and Zambia, like many other countries, urgently need to increase investment in sustainable projects to improve water security, enhance the health of their river basins, and support economic growth. But they both face a major stumbling block: a lack of viable, sustainable and bankable water projects for companies and financial institutions to invest in.

Our new agreement with the Dutch Development Bank sets out to tackle this head-on by providing us with seed funding to develop wastewater treatment projects in both countries.

In Myanmar, the funding will promote green technologies for industrial wastewater treatment − and identify innovative investment options to improve wastewater treatment and reduce pollutant discharges into the Irrawaddy river basin.

In Zambia, the bank will invest in similar efforts in the Kafue river basin, which provides most of the water for Zambia’s capital Lusaka, much of the country’s electricity and sustains the livelihoods of huge numbers of people in rural and urban communities.

![2_sun_xiaodong__1_](https://latest.earthhour.org/hubfs/2_sun_xiaodong__1_.jpg) **

The Skywalker Hoolock Gibbon that is listed as one of the top 25 most endangered primates on the planet  
*© FanPengFei *

×

![2_sun_xiaodong__1_](https://latest.earthhour.org/hubfs/2_sun_xiaodong__1_.jpg)

The Skywalker Hoolock Gibbon that is listed as one of the top 25 most endangered primates on the planet  
*© FanPengFei *

### Get more great updates like this directly into your inbox

![wwf](https://latest.earthhour.org/hs-fs/hubfs/WWF_January2019%20Theme/Images/wwf.png?width=53&name=wwf.png "wwf")

Building a future in which people live in harmony with nature.

© 2017 WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature© 1986 Panda Symbol WWF – World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund)® “WWF” is a WWF Registered Trademark [Creative Commons license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en).