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Mozambique: Greater Maputo will enjoy improved sanitation service
8:36 CAT | 06 Dec 2021
Photo: Conselho Municipal de Maputo
About 90,000 residents of the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area will enjoy improved sanitation after the conclusion, within the next 18 months, of the rehabilitation and expansion of the waste water management and treatment plant in Maputo.
Budgeted at 13 million US dollars. disbursed by the World Bank, the rehabilitation will enable the treatment of waste waters which will then be channelled into the nearby Infulene River. The sludge collected will be used as fertiliser.
Addressing on Thursday the ceremony to lay the foundation stone, the Minister of Public Works, Joao Machatine, said that the work is an integral part of a government project intended to improve urban sanitation in the cities of Maputo, Matola, Beira, Quelimane and Nampula.
“We are pleased to know that following the conclusion, the plant capacity will leap from 15,000 to 90,000 beneficiaries. The infrastructures that we build must enable us to answer today’s necessities but also those of the future,” Machatine declared.
The waste water plant will have the capacity to answer the needs of the residents of the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area until 2040. During the construction phase, about 190 people will be employed to deal with new technologies.
The mayor of Maputo, Eneas Comiche, said that more than 30 per cent of the 1.2 million inhabitants of the city have no access to basic and conventional sanitation, posing a great concern to the municipality which has been sparing no effort to find a solution.
Source: AIM
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