Water cut in Yaounde ends October 2014 - Camwater

The Director-general of the body in charge of the control of the production of drinking water in Cameroon advanced the date to October 2014 as a deadline for the end of the pop-up water cuts.

"Generally, we believe that effective October 2014, each user of the network of Yaoundé intramural will be drinking water to his cock, 7 days a week.

This, thanks to the 50,000 m3/day of Mefou and the additional contribution of 35,000 m3/day, from the Akomnyada plant emergency transitional measures.

"Yaounde production capacity will then be up to185, 000 m3/day ', detailed Jean William Sollo in the public press.

The reaction of the CEO of Camwater comes after the release of his responsible Minister.

The Minister of energy and water, Basile Atangana Kouna, indeed indicated last week on national public radio waves that the work of the Mefou station was completed and the capital of Cameroon will no longer suffer water cuts almost daily.

Each user within the Yaoundé network will have drinking water, 7 days a week, in October 2014. According to the Director General of Camwater only, pop-up cuts remain, and residents of some districts of Yaoundé, to this day, are feet and hands to get some drinking water.

This gap between the speech of the Minister of energy and water and the reality experienced by populations is due to, according to the CEO of Camwater, a few 'adjustments'.

Jean William Sollo explained that: "the factory of the Mefou is able to produce and transfer 50,000 M3 of water per day in Yaoundé. However, to avoid any disruption of the distribution network, the impounding is done gradually. Since last week, pumping capacity has thus been brought to 1680 m3/hour (33,000 m3/day in 20 hours). And this will continue until it reaches the optimum in two or three months."

However, to completely eliminate the water demand of the city of Yaoundé, which is estimated at 300.000m3 per day, other projects are needed.

In particular, expansion of the plant of Akomnyada of 55,000 m3/day on a US Eximbank financing.

Jobs that are advertised for the end of the year 2014 should take a year and bring the total capacity to Yaoundé to 240.000m3/day.

"The gap would then not be more than 30-50.000m3", reassures Jean William Sollo. Cameroonians, accustomed to promises, ask to see the effectiveness of these measures prior to rejoice.