Tetra Tech wins Badulla water supply contract

Tetra Tech Inc, a US firm, said it had won a US $ 74 million contract to build a water supply and treatment plant in Sri Lanka. The US Export-Import Bank is financing the deal.

Tetra Tech will design and oversee the completion of a new water supply treatment plant, storage tanks, pumping stations, a dam, reservoir and transmission and distribution pipelines for Badulla and the surrounding areas. It will also rehabilitate two plants for the National Water Supply and Drainage Board. “Tetra Tech is proud to support the government of Sri Lanka in this important effort to bring safe drinking water to thousands of people,” Tetra Tech's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan Batrack, said in a statement.

“Once in place, the water supply system will help the government to provide safe drinking water to 85 percent of the population, in line with the United Nations Millennium Development goals.

- LBO