The EBRD-financed Zagreb Wastewater Treatment Plant, which opened in phases between 2004 and 2007, was intended to improve water quality in the River Sava. No-one disputed that some wastewater treatment was needed in the city, but the project which was developed has brought more questions than answers and cost Zagreb’s residents dearly.
Private water concessions in France have been increasingly challenged, resulting in the re-municipalisation of the water supply in several cities, including Paris.
In spite of heavy support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (see box), which claims to improve corporate governance and raise standards in the projects in which it participates, in 2009, the most recent year for which figures could be found, water losses were still at 58 percent and most people in Sofia consider the water undrinkable.
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