(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroonian Minister of Energy and Water, Basile Atangana Kouna, will be opening the Mefou water treatment plant on January 23, 2014. The new facility will supply Cameroon’s capital with an additional 50,000 m³ of drinking water. The total supply of water to Yaoundé will rise to 150,000 m³ per day against an official estimated demand of 300,000 m³ of water per day.

However, the Managing Director of Camwater stated on January 15, 2014, during a site visit paid by the administrators of the company responsible for water distribution in Cameroon, that only 25,000 m³ of water per day will be pumped into the network. According to Managing Director, Jean Williams Sollo (photo), the plant will not attain its true production capacity of 50,000 m³ per day until February 2014.

Costing a total of 72 billion FCfa, the water treatment station was co-financed by the French Development Agency (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Cameroonian government.