The head of State conferred Minepat to sign the financing agreement for the extension of the Akomnyada plant. The activities of the emergency plan, recently decided by the head of the State are gradually being put in place.

The Minister of economy, planning and land use (Minepat) has been authorized, last Thursday, by Decree from the President of the Republic, to sign two loan agreements "for the financing of the emergency phase of the programme to supply drinking water in Yaoundé and its surroundings. Loans are to be obtained from the US Eximbank amounting to about 31,000 686 389 F and on the other hand, with the Société Générale of France, for nearly F 6 125 169 088.

The new draft, on joint funding to be provided by the CAMWATER, will be in two phases, under commercial contracts with the US consortium of General Electric (GE) and Environmental Chemical Corporation (ECC). The first phase mentioned here focuses on the construction of an extension of the Akomnyada plant on the Nyong, for the production of 55 000 m3/d.

The technical proposals related have been validated by the CAMWATER, according to the financial negotiations led by Minepat in July in Paris. In detail, it is, inter alia, construction and equipment of a raw water pumping station, the supply and installation of a raw water pipeline; the construction and equipment of an incorporated treatment of 55 000 m3/d; upgrading and strengthening the pumping station of water treated in Akomnyada to take into account the additional capacity of 55 000 m3/d, pumping to Yaoundé, and in the same footsteps, upgrading the pumping station in Nkoayos in Yaoundé, to transfer to the different sites of the city of Yaoundé.