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  • Rehabilitation of 22 battered public latrines and 112 water kiosks in Monrovia

    LIBERIA, 2014/02/23 The Government of Liberia through a partnership amongst the Ministry of Finance, General Services Agency (GSA) and the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) has begun the rehabilitation of 22 battered public latrines and 112 water kiosks in Monrovia to bring water sanitation and hygiene relief to targeted communities. Under the government's sponsored "Monrovia Quick Impact Water and Sanitation" project, several existing latrines in deplorable and unhealthily sanitary conditions will be reconditioned. The project seeks to develop water kiosks in the target communities to reduce water borne diseases inclunding enhance the availability of water and sanitation services to the people.

  • Super computing platform offers solutions for Africa

    AFRICA, 2014/02/13 A super computing platform could help develop solutions for water and sanitation problems in Africa. IBM will be bringing its super computing platform Watson to Africa, where it will help researchers develop commercially-viable solutions in key areas inclunding water and sanitation. “Project Lucy,” as it has been dubbed, will give scientists and partners access to Watson’s advanced computing technologies. IBM will invest $100 million in the ten-year project with the hope that this will help scientists solve the continent’s most pressing challenges and create new business opportunities. In addition to water and sanitation, Project Lucy will help in the areas of healthcare, education, human mobility and agriculture.

  • Egypt's Minister of Water Resources & Irrigation Visiting Addis Ababa

    EGYPT, 2014/02/13 Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohamed Abdul Muttalib, headed a delegation to Addis Ababa today (February 10) to continue talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Minister Muttalib asked to visit Ethiopia to talk further about the differences of opinion over the formation of a committee to oversee the implementation of recommendations of the statement of the International Panel of Experts. This had remained a point at issue between Egypt on one side and the Ministers of Ethiopia and Sudan on the other, next three rounds of discussion in Khartoum.

  • The dam, which Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River,

    EGYPT, 2014/01/06 A conference of ministers in charge of water resources from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia was held here Saturday to discuss the recommendations of the international committee of experts on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The dam, which Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River, has generated much controversy in the region, particularly from Egypt which depends heavily on the waters from the River. Egypt's Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Mohamed Abdul Mutalab told reporters next the conference that several studies are to be conducted on the expected hazards, particularly the hydrological and environmental effects, of the dam on Egypt and the Sudan.

  • Bamako to get potable water with CFAF 70 billioN

    MALI, 2013/12/19 Bamako, the Malian capital, will any minute at this time be provided with good drinking water under an agreement signed here Monday by the Malian government, the French Development Agency (AFD), the European Union (EU) and the European Investment Bank, official sources told PANA Tuesday. The project will cost CFAF 70 billion, the sources said, adding that the funds will come as follows:- a CFAF11.8 billion donation from the EU, a loan of CFAF 25.6 billion from the AFD and CFAF 32.8 billion from the European Investment Bank. The project will cover the construction of the infrastructures for the storage and distribution of water to one million people in Bamako effective from 2018.

  • How developing water resources in Africa

    AFRICA, 2013/12/15 This feature news is part of Singapore International Water Week’s (SIWW) series of one-on-one interviews with world water industry leaders, Conversations with Water Leaders. In this edition, Gustavo Saltiel, program manager, Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA), shares with OOSKAnews correspondent, Renee Martin-Nagle, on CIWA and the World Bank’s water resource development projects in Africa and the Nile Basin.

  • Burundi Finance Minister, Abdallah Tabou Manirakiza.

    BURUNDI, 2013/12/06 Germany will donate 30 million euros to Burundi to enable the African country fund its hydro-electric infrastructure, quoting the Burundi Finance Minister, Abdallah Tabou Manirakiza. The Minister said an agreement to that result was reached Tuesday in Bujumbura with the representatives of the German Development Bank (KFW). According to the minister, half of the money will be used in an interconnection of regional electricity project from Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  • Gwanda Forced to Introduce Water Rationing in Zimbabwe

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  • The Sudanese Water Resources Minister, Osama Abdullah,

    EGYPT, 2013/11/06 Irrigation ministers from Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt rose from their one-day tripartite conference here Monday, agreeing to form a joint mechanism for the implementation of recommendations reached by an international committee of experts on the projected Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The Sudanese Water Resources Minister, Osama Abdullah, speaking at the conference, stressed the importance of participants emerging with recommendations that would consolidate cooperation between the three nations. Dr. Mohamed Abdul Mutalab, the Egyptian Irrigation Minister, noted that it was time to evolve a new strategy for making use of the available opportunity to achieve something beneficial to the next generations.

  • Renewable water resources

    AFRICA, 2013/10/09   Renewable water resources Annual precipitation in Africa is estimated at about 20 360 km3, a continentwide average of 678 mm . Disparities between nations and regions are very significant. The driest country is Egypt with 51 mm/year on average, followed closely by the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (56 mm/year) and Algeria (89 mm/year), which suggests that Morocco (346 mm/year) and Tunisia (207 mm/year) are most advantaged nations in the Northern Region. This region is the driest region on the continent with an average of 96 mm/year. The nations with precipitation exceeding 2 000 mm/year (Sao Tome and Principe with 3 200 mm/year, Sierra Leone 2 526 mm/year, Seychelles 2 330 mm/year, Liberia 2 390 mm/year, Equatorial Guinea 2 156 mm/year, Mauritius 2 041 mm/year) belong to the Gulf of Guinea, Central and Indian Ocean Islands Regions, which are the rainiest. With additional than 7 500 km3/year, the Central Region receives 37 % of all precipitation in Africa in an area that accounts for less than 20 % of the total. In contrast, the Northern Region, with an area similar to the Central Region, receives less than 3 % of total precipitation.
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