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Mozambique’s Deputy Minister of Public Works, Victor Tauacale, on Monday laid the first stone for the construction of a water distribution centre at Mathlemele, in the southern city of Matola.
This centre forms part of an agreement between the Mozambican and Dutch governments, valued at around 20 million euros (23.2 million US dollars) to implement the Greater Maputo Water Supply Project.
The Mathlemele distribution centre itself will cost 490 million meticais (about 8.1 million dollars). It will consist of two tanks, one that can hold 5,000 cubic metres of water and the other with a capacity of 2,500 cubic metres, an elevated tank with a 250 cubic metre capacity, a pumping station and a commercial building.
The new facility is owned by the government’s Water Supply Investment and Assets Fund (FIPAG). The contractor is the Chinese company China Geo Engineering Corporation International, and the inspector is a consortium between Scott Wilson-Mozambique and the Zimbabwean company Lamont Consulting Engineers.
Tauacale urged all of these bodies to ensure that all the deadlines for building the centre are met, and that the job is done with the quality specified in the contract.
He urged the residents of Mathlemele “to be vigilant and not to allow anyone to create disturbances in the project – for example, by stealing building materials. Only in this way will the work be concluded within the budget, and the government can then rapidly mobilise other resources for the development of infrastructures elsewhere in the country”.
The distribution centre will potentially benefit 465,000 people in Mathlemele and the nearby Matola neighbourhoods of Zona Verde, Ndlavela, 1st May, Km 15 and Nkobe. The construction work is expected to take about 15 months and will create at least 300 jobs.
A second distribution centre, included in the Mathlemele budget, will be built at Guava in Marracuene district, and will serve such outlying Maputo neighbourhoods as Albazine and Magoanine.
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