Increased Water Supply For Yaounde City Dwellers In Six Months

                                   Photo Credit: Cameroon Tribune

Goodbye to acute water troubles Yaounde city dwellers, there'll be more water in the near future. According to Cameroon Tribune , government and an Indian firm yesterday signed an agreement for an emergency project.

Here's how the paper is reporting it

"All things being equal, the city of Yaounde will in the next six months be served additional 50,000 cubic metres of potable water daily to curb the demand/supply shortfall
of the precious liquid in town. Energy and Water Resources Minister, Basile Atangana Kouna, and an Indian firm, Imperial Holding Limited, yesterday December 1 signed the executing agreement for emergency project expected to span six months.
According to the Director of the Indian firm who signed on behalf of the company, Vaibhuv Duvvur, the project consists in building a water treatment plant in Mefou in the Nsimalen neigbhourhood, some 17 km from Yaounde for a daily supply of additional 50,000 cubic metres of potable water to town. The project also entails generating additional 20,000 cubic metres to be packaged in 20-litre containers for areas that do not have pipe-borne water. “The costs specifics of the project are still being worked out but the total envisaged cost that Imperial Holding Limited is putting is 75 million Euros (about FCFA 49.196 billion),” he said. The project will be executed under the Public Private Partnership Agreement framework, meaning the company raises the money, executes the project, runs it for 15 years to get back its investments before handing it over to government. Minister Basile Atangana Kouna lauded the Indian firm for their commitment, urging officials to accelerate procedures for field work to begin soon. Government gave the land on which the plant will be constructed."