Camwater to erect 50 water tarpaulins in Douala

In the coming month of July, the Cameroon Water Utilities (Camwater), public company in the drinking water sector in Cameroon, will erect 50 tarpaulins in the city of Douala, particularly in the areas not connected to the distribution network.

According to the management of this public company, this temporary solution will help to reduce the difficulties in accessing drinking water in several areas of the Cameroonian economic capital.

The 50 tarpaulins announced by Camwater, we learn, are a type of giant plastic tanks, which can each help stock 5,000 litres of water. In total, 25,000 litres of drinking water will thus be made available to the populations in Douala who are still disconnected from the Camwater network.

This operation does not however overshadow the water shortage which has grown worse in the big cities of Cameroon these past months.

A situation which led to the dismissal of Camwater's MD, Jean Williams Solo, and his replacement by Alphonse Roger Ondoa Akoa, who had announced the end of the water shortages in the Cameroonian capital for March 2016 in vain.

Frustrated by these continuous water shortages in the country, the Cameroonian Head of State, after dismissing the MD of Camwater in February 2016, recently instructed the Prime Minister to work toward the non-renewal, in 2017, of the lease contract signed the Moroccan company Onep, who owns the Camerounaise Des Eaux (CDE).