This Project Preparation Technical Assistance (TA) entitled ‘Ebeye Water Supply and Sanitation Project – ADB PPTA 8306- RMI’ is located in Ebeye, Marshall Islands. The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) consists of two groups of atolls and islands – Ralik in the west and Ratak to the east – both located within a rectangle extending 1150 km north-south and 1300 km east-west, about 3200 km from Honolulu and Tokyo. Twenty-two of the 29 atolls, and four of the small raised coral islands are inhabited. The islands are typically several km long but rarely over 200 m in width. The combined land area of the Marshall Islands is 74 square miles, but the total of 1225 islands are scattered over an area of 775 square miles.