The project is expected to provide safe drinking water to the people in the areas of Uhana, Damana, Higurana, Irakkamam, Sammanturai, Potuvil, Dehiattakandiya and Maha Oya in the Ampara District by the National Water Supply and Drainage Board.

In addition, it is expected to implement 30 rural water supply schemes in the Province by the Eastern Provincial Council.

Further Rs 17,271 million is allocated to implement the Kandy City Wastewater Management Project.

The objective of the project is to prevent polluting the Kandy city water sources, river Mahaweli and Kandy lake through domestic and Industrial wastewater by collecting and treating them with a treatment facility.

The infrastructures associated with this project are Wastewater Treatment Plant, Main Pump Station, 12 Manhole pump station, sanitary facilities for low income groups and 94 km. long collection pipe network.

The volume of wastewater expected to be treated daily through biological treatment is cubic meters 14,000.

The detailed designs for the project have already been prepared under the ongoing Water Sector Development Project funded by the Government of Japan.

On January 07th the Government and UNICEF commissioned a new water supply scheme of 1.66 billion rupees in Ampara District.

The Thirukkovil Water treatment plant will provide safe drinking water to 38,000 people in the Thirukkovil area.

The Thirukkovil supply scheme has the capacity to supply 6,500 cubic meters of fully treated drinking water to the Thirukkovil Divisional Secretariat area and suburbs.
Before this project, there was no reliable safe water supply in the area. Communities were depending on dugwells and other sources of water.

The main components of the new project include Sagamam Water Intake, consisting pump house, generator room, and suction chamber, Thirukkovil Treatment Plant consisting the aerator, sedimentator, laboratory, sludge disposal system, and Thamaraikulm site consisting a 500 cubic meter tank for storing the treated water, generator room, pump house and a 2.7km pipeline connection.

The scheme will distribute water to communities in Thirukkovil, Mandanai, Thambiluvil, Kudinilathidal, Vinayagapuram, Thamaraikulam, Sangamamgramam and Sagamankandy areas.