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$128.5 million for safer water in Ecuador — including 166,000 people in the Amazon

For families in Ecuador who turn on a tap and cannot trust it, help is on the way. The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $128.48 million package to expand drinking-water systems, sanitation and waste services, directly benefiting about 283,000 people — about 166,000 of them in the Amazon region, where basic services are hardest to reach.

The upbeat factorclean water and sanitation planned first for the places that need them most.
✓ Verified · Devdiscourse · 2026-10-23 · Ecuador
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