(Business in Cameroon) - General Electric and Environmental and Chemical Corporation (ECC), to launch a new 55,000 m3 per day treatment plant in Akomnyada where another water treatment facility (100,000 m3/day) already exists.

Slated to take 18 months, the project is being financed to the tune of 32 billion FCFA by Exim Bank USA with the main arranger being Société générale in Paris, stated Camwater Managing Director, Jean Williams Sollo.

With 55,000 m3 of water per day, the plant will supply the city of Yaoundé with 200,000 m3 of drinking water per day (instead of the current 100,000 m3) thanks to the 50,000 m3 it will receive from another water treatment plant currently being finished by Geofor.