Overview

China provides emergency water supplies to Male, Maldives (link to Record ID#38403)

Commitment Year•2014Country of Activity•MaldivesSector•Emergency ResponseFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Dec 7, 2014

End (actual): Dec 8, 2014

Geospatial footprint

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The purpose of this project was to provide emergency water supplies to Male, Maldives. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6599336

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

People's Liberation Army of China (PLA)

State-owned companies

China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC)
China Southern Airlines

Loan description

China provides emergency water supplies to Male, Maldives (link to Record ID#38403)

Narrative

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Project narrative

In early December 2014, China sent water bottles on commercial airliners including 32.5 tons of water from Mega Maldives and China Southern Airlines and 5 tons of water bottles from Emirates (following urgent contact on the part of CMEC, a Chinese machinery company) to the Maldives. In addition, China had the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Changxingdao warship deliver 600 tons of drinking water to Male Port. Then the PLAAF sent two planes to deliver 40 tons of water to Male International Airport. The project is linked to Record ID#38403 where China provided a $500,000 emergency grant to the Maldives' government to speed up repairs in a desalination plant and restore water to the capital following a fire at a desalinization plant that threatened Male's water supply in 2014.