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Water Scarcity in Yaounde: Status Quo Till Next December

Water Scarcity in Yaounde: Status Quo Till Next December
  • Comments   -   Tuesday, 04 June 2013 21:28

(Business in Cameroon) - After a field trip to the Mefou and the Akomnyada water stations under rehabilitation, the General Manager of Cameroon Water Utilities Company (Camwater), Jean William Sollo confirmed to the state-owned bilingual daily, Cameroon Tribune that the daily supply of water to Yaoundé will increase from 100,000 to 190,000 m3 by next December.

Valued at 1.5 billion francs CFA, the work at Akomnyada, jointly funded by the State of Cameroon and Belgium, and constructed by Aspac Cemac (Belgian Company), consists in installing two new pumps. According to Jean William Sollo, one is to enhance the uptake of water and another for discharging the water into the distribution system. 

“With the new electric pump, we will go from 100,000 to 130,000 cubic meters of water […] per day,” says Stephanie Ngo Ntamack, Engineer with Aspac Cemac.

To deal with frequent power outages, the Akomnyada station, situared 4 km from Mabalmayo the headquarters of Nyong and So’o Division of the Centre Region, has a single generator that takes over but can only provide 50% of the water supply distributed mainly to priority directions.

As concerns Mefou, the French Development Agency project when completed will pump 50,000 m3 by December 2013.

But the problems of water in Yaoundé will not go away until 2018 when Camwater will tap 300,000 cubic meters of water daily from the Sanaga River. Yaoundé will then receive a daily supply of about 500,000 m3, indicated Jean William Sollo.

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