It has been announced that the specifications are being prepared and will include the operation and maintenance for 10 years of the current treatment plant and a new one to be built as part of the works.  The tender for the second stage of the sanitation project in Panama City includes not just cleaning but also expansion of the capacity of the existing treatment plant. To accomplish this, the goal is to build another plant that will work in parallel with the current one, and it is expected that it will be built within 36 months after the award of the works.

Overall project coordinator Tatiana De Janon, told Prensa.com that “… the work aims to extend capacity of the sewage treatment plant for the city of Panama up to 5.5 cubic meters per second, from its current processes a flow of 2.1 cubic meters per second. ”

Health Minister, Francisco Javier Terrientes, explained that “… the work ‘will be the backbone which will support all basic sanitation projects 100 percent”, through which the government plans to provide drinking water to 100 % of the population and eliminate all existing latrines. Terrientes said that when the basic sanitation works are completed waste water from these houses will be distributed in different drain networks that have been built and are expected to be built before finally arriving at the treatment plants. “