Actualités of Friday, 5 September 2014

Source: Cameroon Tribune

Meyomessala community gets drinking water

A water supply agreement between the municipality, PNDP and the Camwater was signed Tuesday. To the inhabitants of Meyomessala, the convention for the availability of drinking water supply jointly signed by the national participatory development program (Pndp) and the commune, is a life saving gesture.

The signing ceremony, presided over by the Governor of the southern region, Jules Marcellin Ndjaga, at hôtel de ville, Tuesday, dedicated the materialization of what was still a project improving access to drinking water, and which was to focus on the quality of the drinking water in parts of the city.

It was question, for both partners, to improve in quality existing installations to ensure regularity in the supply. The infrastructure for the project conducted includes the active participation of the populations of the beneficiary districts.

They have made available sites for the construction of the castle with a capacity of 50 m 3, of two boreholes, hydrants and necessary rights-of-way for the laying of pipes. All this work came to a sum of 93.246.909 F of the variable contribution rate between PNDP (over 88%) and the municipality of Meyomessala (12%).

This initiative, according to Christian Mebiame Mfou’ou, Mayor of Meyomessala, concrete argument of fight against water-borne diseases, by leveraging the experience, has pushed the communal Executive to opt for professionalism.

The Cameroon Water Utilities Corporation (Camwater) has been selected. It is tasked to ensured provision of water to the inhabitants of Meyomessala, permanently.

The Governor Jules Marcellin Ndjaga, enjoying this partnership that fit in the context of the implementation of the policy of decentralization in Cameroon, invited the other communes in the South to copy this fine example. He also recommended a responsible management of the infrastructure transferred to Camwater.