Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Drinking water, Energy, environnement, Gestion, Management, Réservoirs, Services de l’eau, Solar, Water Supply Service, Water supply systems
DRC: solar hybrid system will bring more than 80,000 people a continuous supply of drinking water
Picture caption: Inhabitants of Mbuji Mayi drawing drinking water from a standpipe supplied by one of the two hybrid water networks within the framework of this project (photo credit: Enabel).
Converting fossil-fuel-powered generators to solar hybrid power systems: a high-potential market for the hydraulics sector in Africa
VERGNET HYDRO will convert to hybrid power two drinking water networks in Mbuji-Mayi city (Kasai-Oriental Province, DRC) by coupling the current Diesel generators to solar power plants to bring a continuous supply of water to more than 80,000 people. “Converting fossil-fuel-powered generators to solar hybrid power systems is without any doubt a high-potential market for the hydraulics sector in Africa. It is important that we start demonstrating the expertise VERGNET HYDRO has in this field now,” said Romain Dubreuil, Area Sales Manager for VERGNET HYDRO, enthusiastically. The hybrid systems are scheduled to be commissioned in December 2020.
The electricity network in Mbuji-Mayi is defective, inadequate and undeveloped in peri-urban areas. Consequently, drinking water networks are powered by Diesel generators. In this isolated province, however, fuel is expensive. This has a significant impact on the price of the water sold at water distribution points, which are in fact little used because they are financially beyond the reach of many local people. To provide wider access to drinking water, the Belgian development agency Enabel, financed by the Kingdom of Belgium, has opted to put in place a technology that is less damaging to the environment and offers lower, more controllable running costs: solar PV farms. “This pilot project is part of Enabel’s PROGEAU programme in DRC and is set to be rolled out to nine other drinking water networks in Mbuji-Mayi, to serve 350,000 people, and four networks in Maniema Province, to serve 100,000 people,” explained Fabian PROD’HOMME, the programme’s coordinator at Enabel.
Direct solar solutions without batteries
Under the project, direct solar solutions without batteries will be used to power the two water networks. To ensure continuity of supply 365 days per year, Diesel generators will take over from the solar generators where necessary, on very cloudy days and overnight. VERGNET HYDRO’s role in the project is to supply and install two solar farms, all the equipment required to connect the solar generators to the pumps, float valve systems for the tanks and pressure switch automatic regulation systems for the pumps. “The solar farms should produce at least 160m3 and 130m3 of water per day, with peak power of 37kWp and 32kWp,” explained Roman SNRECH from VERGNET HYDRO, who is in charge of the operational side of the project.
Training the network operators is another important aspect of the project. Indeed, it is essential to ensure that the network operators grouped together within the ASUREPs (drinking water network users’ associations) rapidly become self-sufficient in day-to-day management and equipment maintenance. “We will run four sessions with the technicians from each network and the inter-network technicians. We will equip them with tool kits (multimeters, assembly/disassembly tools, solarmeters, etc.) and provide a maintenance support service during the first few months,” said Roman SNRECH.
Drinking water, Réservoirs, Solar, Togo, Uncategorized, Water supply systems, Water tank line
Togo : A solar-based technical feat to open access to drinking water to 2,000 rural people
Solar-powered pumping in geologically and geographically challenging sites
Picture caption: Rural people drawing water from a standpipe, lately installed by ECM as part of the BORNEFONDEN project in the Région des Plateaux, similar to those which are going to be installed in the context of the current project (photo credit: ECM).
The Togolese Ministry for Water, Rural Equipment and Village Water Systems announced that it has awarded a solar-powered water supply and installation contract to the joint-venture composed of the companies VERGNET HYDRO and ECM (Lomé, Togo), aiming at providing more than 2,000 rural people from the Région des Savanes (Northern Togo) with drinking water. “The geological and geographical features of these 5 sites are challenging. Bringing drinking water to these populations, relying on solar energy, is the opportunity to demonstrate the full extent of the technical know-how of our two companies“, says Thierry BARBOTTE, Managing Director for VERGNET HYDRO.
The project consists of installing solar-powered drinking water supply systems in the villages of Nadiégou, Polougou (Tône Prefecture), Kankangbane (2 sites, including one school) and Djalière (Tandjoaré Prefecture), on particularly steep areas. “The boreholes are very deep. The pumps will be installed at the depth of between 165 and 220 meters…“, specifies Joël MENAGER, Bids and Projects Officer for VERGNET HYDRO.
To reduce the geographical marginalization in these villages
This project also has an important social dimension. Future users of these facilities today have limited access to the hydraulic equipment of their own villages, due to their geographical isolation. “The introduction of the new equipment significantly reduces the geographical marginalization in these villages while relieving the many challenges they are facing,” states Dominique GUNN, Sales Manager for ECM.
With a budget of 194 million CFA francs (€295,600), this contract falls within the framework of the PROJECT TO IMPROVE HEALTH CONDITIONS IN SCHOOL AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS IN THE SAVANES REGION (PASSCO) led and funded by the FRENCH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (AFD). “All the equipment will be installed and functional in September 2019”, concludes Gwenolé LE LAGADEC, Business Manager for VERGNET HYDRO.
Drinking water, hand and foot pumps, hydro pump, Mali, Pompes à motricité humaine, Réservoirs, Solar, Water supply systems, Water tank line
Mali: To supply more than 12,000 rural people with drinking water in the centre of armed conflicts
20 schools from the Region of Gao to be equipped
Picture caption: Pupils drawing water from a HYDRO INDIA 60 manual pump in the ALZANABANDIA ZABA school in Gao (photo credit: UNICEF MALI/2019/DIARRA).
The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF announced that it has awarded a supply and installation contract to the joint-venture composed of the companies VERGNET HYDRO and SEEBA (Bamako, Mali) for the construction of drinking water supply systems for more than 12,000 rural people in the Region of Gao in Mali. “We are proud to provide these people in the centre of armed conflicts, including pupils from 20 schools, with safe water”, confides Thierry BARBOTTE, Managing Director for VERGNET HYDRO. All infrastructure will be installed and fully operational by June 2019.
With a budget of 385 million CFA francs (580,000 euros), the project comprises the drilling of 22 boreholes, the rehabilitation of 5 boreholes, the setup of 3 solar-powered piped water supply systems, the construction of 17 standpipes and the installation of 24 manual pumps (HYDRO INDIA 60 and HPV100). “The company SEEBA is in charge of the civil engineering and VERGNET HYDRO provides all equipment”, specifies Najib BENAZOUZ, Area Sales Manager for VERGNET HYDRO.
A contribution to the local economy
“Of course, managing this kind of operations in these areas requires local staff. This contribution to the local economy is a major dimension of this project”, concludes Modibo TAMBOURA, Managing Director for SEEBA.
Bénin, Drinking water, Réservoirs, Water supply systems
VERGNET HYDRO’s first piped water scheme in Benin is going to provide 35,000 rural people with drinking water
41 boreholes, 15 water towers, 82 standpipes…
Picture caption: Photograph of a standpipe similar to the 82 ones which are going to be installed for this project. This standpipe was set up by AGIRE in Agbatitoé (Togo), for a project funded by the French association AQUASSISTANCE (photo credits: AGIRE SARL).
The Beninese National Agency for drinking water in rural areas (ANAEPMR) announced that it has awarded a supply and installation contract to the joint-venture composed of the companies FORAG SA (Cotonou, Benin, leader), AGIRE SARL (Cotonou, Benin) and VERGNET HYDRO for the construction of drinking water supply systems for more than 35,000 rural people. The joint-venture is to build 7 piped drinking water supply schemes in the Department of Borgou. « We are starting a new chapter of VERGNET HYDRO’s history in Benin. We have worked here since the 1980s and this country is one of the 3 first destinations of our manual pumps. Today, more than one Beninese out of two (5,6 million rural people) draws its drinking water from VERGNET HYDRO’s manual pumps. This contract is our first piped water scheme project in the country », says enthusiastically Thierry BARBOTTE, Managing Director for VERGNET HYDRO.
« Benin’s rural water supply sector is in transition. We hope that this project, amounting to 5 billion CFA francs (7.62 million euros), will be the first of many other water supply system projects in Benin for VERGNET HYDRO », adds Baptiste GADENNE, Area Sales Manager for VERGNET HYDRO. Within this project, FORAG SA implements and drills 37 boreholes, and rehabilitates 4 boreholes. AGIRE SARL SARL supplies a part of the pipes, installs the pipes and handles the civil engineering: 15 water towers, 82 standpipes and the water pipes. VERGNET HYDRO supplies and installs the electromechanical equipment (41 submerged pumps, 43 power generators, 7 chlorination systems, etc.), as well as a part of the water pipes.
Equipment designed over the course of project implementation
VERGNET HYDRO’s responsiveness and expertise are among the key factors for the project’s success. « The inaugurations of the 7 networks are planned for September 2019. As the boreholes features (depths, flow rates, etc.) are currently unknown, the actual design of the schemes and sending of the equipment will be done gradually over the course of the project », specifies Joël MENAGER, Project Officer for VERGNET HYDRO.
The 7 piped schemes to be constructed are part of Benin’s largest water supply systems project ever, with a total of 24 systems to be constructed.
Drinking water, Réservoirs, Solar, Water supply systems
Mali : Solar power to provide 100,000 rural people with drinking water
269 water points fed by solar-powered pumps
Picture caption: Photographs of a solar field, a water tower and a pump manifold constructed by VERGNET HYDRO, MTCS and ATC MALI in Mali in 2011 for a project of 11 hydraulic centers, similar to the 20 centers subject of this article.
« We have just received the 170 km of pipes that will enable us to provide 100,000 rural people with drinking water in the KOULIKORO Region (Mali) », states Thierry BARBOTTE, General Director for VERGNET HYDRO. Funded by the German bank KREDITANSTALT FÜR WIEDERAUFBAU (KfW) and led by the Malian NATIONAL AGENCY FOR HYDRAULICS (DIRECTION NATIONALE DE L’HYDRAULIQUE) and the German company GAUFF CONSULTANTS (the technical coordinator), this project is carried out by a joint-venture gathering VERGNET HYDRO and the Malian companies MTCS and ATC MALI. They are committed to installing 269 water points in 20 localities, fed by solar-powered pumps.
« VERGNET HYDRO wrote the initial technical studies and has provided the equipment (pipes, pumping systems, taps and chlorination system), ATC MALI is providing the 20 water towers and MTCS handles all the construction works », specifies Najib BENAZOUZ, Business Manager for VERGNET HYDRO. The project budget, divided over 2 lots of 10 localities each, amounts to 5.5 million euros (3.6 billion CFA francs).
First inaugurations planned for the end of 2018
« This is a 100%-solar project. But, this is also a 100%-treatment project. All pumped water is treated by chlorination before being stored in the water towers and drawn by the villagers », adds Thomas CANDELORO, Projects Manager for VERGNET HYDRO. Indeed, a crucial part of the project consists of constructing buildings next to the water towers which will house the chlorine production (electrolysis process) and injection processes. Furthermore, 5 of the localities will be equipped with power generators.
This 12-month long project started in February 2018. The first inaugurations are planned for the end of 2018. « We have a lot on our plate but we are going to respect the deadlines, because our joint-venture is well organised. Actually, we had already constructed 11 equivalent hydraulic centers in Mali together with MTCS and ATC MALI, back in 2011 », concludes Thierry BARBOTTE.
Drinking water, Gestion, Guinea, réservoir, Réservoirs, Uncategorized, Water supply systems
GUINEA: Treatment of surface waters to provide 60,000 rural people with drinking water
A first experience in the treatment of surface waters
The Ministry for Energy and Hydraulics in the Republic of Guinea just announced the awarding of the supply and installation contract to the joint venture composed of ALTECH SAFS (Liège, Belgium) and VERGNET HYDRO (subsidiary of the ODIAL SOLUTIONS Group, Orléans, France) for the construction of drinking water supply systems for 60,000 villagers belonging to 120 remote rural communities spread in the 8 Guinean administrative regions. The 120 sites will be operating by July 2021. “This project is the first experience of VERGNET HYDRO, historical player for groundwater pumping and small water piping in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the surface waters valorization”, says enthusiastically Thierry BARBOTTE, Managing Director for VERGNET HYDRO.
Why treat surface water (village wells, rivers, marshes, etc.) instead of exploiting groundwater, which requires less treatment? Simply because the possibility of drilling on each of these 120 sites has already been rejected. “Either these villages are inaccessible to the equipment that would allow drilling, because they are very remote and their access roads are too complex, or their hydrogeological conditions do not allow satisfactory drilling boreholes“, specifies Baptiste GADENNE, business manager for VERGNET HYDRO.
120 HYDROPUR treatment units
HYDROPUR treatment units, designed and manufactured by ALTECH SAFS, will be set up at each of the 120 sites to treat these surface waters. 20 of which are already in operation in Guinea. The HYDROPUR installations occupy about 20 m² and combine the techniques of treatment by coagulation, flocculation, disinfection by bleach, then filtration on sand and activated carbon. Each unit can treat 1 to 2 m3 per hour, i.e. supply water up to 250 to 1000 people. “The main advantages of a HYDROPUR station are the autonomy, because the treatment is done gravitarily, its robustness, because its structure is in stainless steel, and its simplicity of maintenance“, adds Claude LOMBART, ALTECH SAFS Board Member.
In this project, VERGNET HYDRO identifies, designs and equips the surface water catchment points, locates the HYDROPUR units, organizes the logistical access modalities to the sites for all the equipment, sets up the devices for fetching water to the stations (pumping, piping, solar energy, etc.), and coordinates the construction of the HYDROPUR installation platform. “Taken into consideration the remoteness of the sites and the water quantities expected on each of them (average of 8 m3 to 10m³ per day), we have agreed to systematically convey surface water to the stations by solar pumping“, explains Joël MENAGER, Project Manager at VERGNET HYDRO.
Guinean workers installing a HYDROPUR unit (photos credits: ALTECH SAFS).
A network of mechanics and After-Sales Service shops
Final site selection is scheduled for early July 2018. Whatever the site, the first priority is to establish the water catchment and treatment points. “Before identifying the technical features of each site (topography, geology, hydrology, position of villages in relation to water sources, in order not to disturb farming and/or forest areas, etc.), we will of course go into contact with the populations to integrate their expectations and habits. The social intermediation phase will be determining for the success of such a project calls“, summarizes Baptiste GADENNE. The works will then be carried out in partnership with the Guinean company ENTREPRISE VERGNET GUINEE (Kindia, Republic of Guinea), historic local partner of VERGNET HYDRO, and with the support of National Agency of Hydraulics (Ministry of Energy and Hydraulics of the Republic of Guinea), delegated project manager for this project.
To ensure the durability of the installations, the joint venture will set up a network of repairers and after-sales services shops, similar to the VERGNET HYDRO product after-sales service model. The associations of users of these water points will be able to count on the skills of local repairers, trained ad certified to ensure the maintenance and repairs of their installations: renewal of treatment consumables, equipment maintenance, etc. The project therefore includes a substantial training component for these repairers. “The proximity and the qualification of these craftsmen repairers guarantee a reactive and effective after-sales service”, emphasises Adama DIALLO, General Manager of ENTREPRISE VERGNET GUINEE.
The transfer of the HYDROPUR technology
The “training” component of the project also includes the structuring of user associations into Water Utility Management Units (UGSPE). Villagers will be trained in the routine maintenance of a HYDROPUR and accompanied in the organization of this collegial and regular management. “Basically, this project aims to transfer HYDROPUR technology to Guinea. Not only we are going to train local technicians in the installation and management of HYDROPUR, but we will also gradually implement in Guinea the production of all parts for drinking water treatment plants“, states Claude LOMBART.
The project is financed by an interest-free loan from the Belgian government to the Guinean government. It will last 5 years and will include a first phase of installation of all 120 sites (3 years) and a second phase of site monitoring (over 2 years), knowing that the Belgian development agency ENABEL will follow the project and carry out a general mid-term evaluation. “The timetable is ambitious because we have to deal with the uniqueness of each of the sites, the rainy seasons, the distances between villages, etc.”, concludes Thierry BARBOTTE.
Burkina Faso, Drinking water, Gestion, hand and foot pumps, hydro pump, Management, Pompes à motricité humaine, Quality, Réservoirs, Services de l’eau, Water Supply Service, Water supply systems, Water tank line
VERGNET BURKINA : More than 100,000 villagers now recipients of a sustainable drinking water supply service
More than 100,000 villagers recipients of a drinking water supply service
The Burkinabe Sud-Ouest region announced to be delegating to the Burkinabe company VERGNET BURKINA (11 employees, Ouagadougou, subsidiary of VERGNET HYDRO [Orléans, France]) the management of 9 drinking water supply centers, located in rural areas of the Loba and Bougouriba provinces, in the municipalities of Zambo, Guéguéré, Koper, Oronkua (Centre and Orpoune), Dissihn (Nakar), Bondigui, Iolonioro (Diassara) and Navielgané. “This new activity, launched in 2009, allows us to reach the symbolic threshold of providing 100,000 people with drinking water through the delegated management services offered by our subsidiary. The enthusiasm shown by Burkinabe local authorities lets us believe there is still enormous potential for scaling up this management activity”, states Christophe LEGER, VERGNET HYDRO Deputy Managing Director.
VERGNET BURKINA is now in charge of 29 small piped networks in Burkina Faso, located in the Sud-Ouest, Hauts-Bassins, Centre-Nord and Centre-Ouest regions. For this purpose, the Burkinabe SME has entered into Public Service Delegation (PSD) contracts with 25 municipalities. “Each one of these affermage contracts commits VERGNET BURKINA to providing a sustainable drinking water supply service to the local people over a period of 10 years, and to finance the upkeep of pumping equipment with the turnover generated from water sales by volumes (jerrycans, barrels and buckets), at a tariff commonly set with the communal authorities and validated by the municipal councils”, specifies Jean-Christophe KI, Managing Director for VERGNET BURKINA.
Jean-Christophe KI, Managing Director for VERGNET BURKINA, beside a managed standpipe in the Kampti rural municipality (Sud-Ouest). Photo credit: VERGNET BURKINA.
A network of 201 involved and skilled collaborators
Before the start of the water supply services, the municipalities hand over to the operator their small piped networks brought up to standards: inspection of water pipes and standpipes and control of the pumping equipment, water tanks and water quality. The groundwater water is pumped through fuel-powered generators (44,5% of the centers), solar units (18,5%), hybrid solar systems (18,5%) and the national electrical grid SONABEL (18,5%). “Before we start operating the water service for the villagers, it is important to prepare the equipment and to put in place the procedures to be able to monitor precisely and objectively the water quantities consumed at each standpipe. We have therefore equipped all the water points (collective standpipes, private connections) with water meters”, adds Abdoulaye SORY, Hydraulic Engineer for VERGNET BURKINA.
Water supply is about service delivery. Hence, it is heavy on human resources. VERGNET BURKINA already relies on a network of 201 collaborators (21 network managers, 9 cashiers and 171 standpipe caretakers), whom manage together the 29 rural water networks. “High quality services require involved and skilled employees. That’s why their remuneration is tied to the water volumes consumed at the standpipes on which they work. In addition, we organize regular training sessions”, explains Samuel SAWADOGO, Chief Operations Officer for VERGNET BURKINA.
Anne VINCENT, Resident Representative of UNICEF in Burkina Faso, and André Patindé NONGUIERMA, Managing Director of Sanitation, representing the Minister of Water and Sanitation in Burkina Faso, give to Samuel SAWADOGO and Abdoulaye SORY (VERGNET BURKINA) the 1st Innovators Market Award at the National Conference on the Efficient management of the drinking Water Service in Rural and Semi Urban Areas, on the 19 October 2017 in Ouagadougou. Photo credit: SESAME PICTURES.
A R&D project that led to the creation of the startup UDUMA
The water supply management model can also be applied on manual pumps, which represents a real innovation in the sector of rural water supply. Since 2016, as part of the UNICEF Burkina Faso Research Action Project “E-PUMP”, VERGNET BURKINA has been operating the drinking water service for 112 manual pumps: 50 in Dassa and 57 in Kyon (Centre-Ouest administrative district) and 5 in Niankorodougou (Cascades administrative district). “The results of this pilot project contributed to the creation of the company UDUMA MALI, which will soon be operating 1,400 manual pumps in Malian rural areas (Sikasso administrative district), serving 560,000 villagers”, continues Christophe LEGER.
It should be noted that the VERGNET BURKINA water supply services received two Water and Sanitation Awards (categories “research and innovation” and “water resources recovery”) at the 3rd National Forum for Water and Sanitation (Partenariat National de l’eau du Burkina Faso, PNE-BF), on 2 February 2018 in Ouagadougou, and the 1st Innovators Market Award at the National Conference on the Efficient Management of Drinking Water Services in Rural and Semi Urban Areas, on 19 October 2017 in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).
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Côte d’Ivoire, Drinking water, Ivory Coast, Réservoirs, Water supply systems
1st big drinking water supply project in Côte d’Ivoire
More than 150,000 people from now on have access to drinking water
The Ministry of Economic Infrastructures of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire officially inaugurated the drinking water supply systems, part of the PROGRAMME D’HYDRAULIQUE ET D’ASSAINISSEMENT POUR LE MILLENAIRE (PHAM, HYDRAULIC AND SANITATION PROGRAM FOR THE MILLENIUM). “VERGNET HYDRO has, for more than 30 years, provided a lot of manual pumps in Côte d’Ivoire. But, it is the first time we are implementing such a huge drinking water supply project”, says enthusiastically Etienne DECHERF, Business and Operations Director of VERGNET HYDRO.
Thanks to the PHAM, more than 150,000 people from rural Western Côte d’Ivoire (Cavally, Guemon, Haut Sassandra, Marahoué and Tonkpi) from now on have access to drinking water. The project included the repairs of 13 drinking water supply systems (replacement of water pipes, building of new standpipes, etc.) and 29 new drinking water systems (electrical equipment and connections of boreholes, pipes laying, etc.). “We implemented this project in partnership with our Ivorian subsidiary SAHER and with the company MTK SERVICES. VERGNET HYDRO, the lead partner, provided all the equipment, except for the water towers. MTK SERVICES coordinated the implementation of the works”, says Thomas CANDELORO, Project Manager of VERGNET HYDRO.
People that have been greatly affected by the 2002 civil war
Funded primarily by the EUROPEAN UNION, and with support of the Ivorian government and the KREDITANSTALT FUR WIEDERAUFBAU (KfW), the hydraulic part of the program is being piloted by the OFFICE NATIONAL DE L’EAU POTABLE (ONEP, NATIONAL BOARD FOR DRINKING WATER) in Côte d’Ivoire. “From the advent, this project, spread over a territory as big as Ireland, was a real challenge. It is providing with drinking water people that have been greatly affected by the 2002 civil war. It is an important step for the development of these territories and is therefore a great satisfaction for us”, concludes Mikael DUPUIS, Director of the company SAHER.
Drinking water, Mozambique, Réservoirs, Uncategorized, Water supply systems
VERGNET HYDRO and AFRIDEV MATI: First project of solar-powered water supply networks in Mozambique
VERGNET HYDRO and AFRIDEV MATI: First project of solar-powered water supply networks in Mozambique
“VERGNET HYDRO has just concluded its first project in Mozambique to provide solar-powered water supply networks in rural areas”, says Thierry BARBOTTE, CEO of VERGNET HYDRO. 10,000 rural people now have continuous access to clean and safe water thanks to this advanced technology. “I feel very pleased to be more and more active in this country and to reinforce our promising partnership with the local company AFRIDEV MATI [Maputo, Mozambique].”
Joël MENAGER, R&D technician at VERGNET HYDRO, helped to complete this project by providing an extensive quality control of the equipment which took nearly two weeks, ending June 9th. This procedure was required because AFRIDEV MATI didn’t have the technical experience of that kind of projects with VERGNET HYDRO yet. It was even more required that the project includes, among the nine tanks, the first VERGNET HYDRO On Fill Water Tank (OFWT) set up in Mozambique (seven-meter high and 32,000-liter tank).
All in all, nine drinking water supply networks have been set up in this project, in less than a year. The nine villages taking advantage of these water networks are located in the Gaza province; they are Buiela, Chidulo, Chissapa, Chizumbane, Mapai Ngala, Mapanhe, Muzamane, Pfukwe and Tchale. This 640,000-euro project was completely funded by the Belgian Cooperation.
“We have chosen to maintain a close partnership in this project”, states Romain DUBREUIL, the Prospection Manager of VERGNET HYDRO. VERGNET HYDRO and AFRIDEV MATI have recently signed a contract which maintains the close cooperation between them. VERGNET HYDRO has the responsibility to manage the project, performs the initial technical studies and supplies the equipment. AFRIDEV MATI is then responsible for the construction of the infrastructure at the various locations.
The partnership between VERGNET HYDRO and AFRIDEV MATI is based on a win-win relationship
The main water lines used in this project were manufactured in Mozambique. “We try to involve local SMEs in our businesses as much as possible”, Thierry BARBOTTE asserts. VERGNET HYDRO has clearly supported the growth of the young SME AFRIDEV MATI up to now. “Thanks to our partnership with VERGNET HYDRO, we have indeed been able to hire six new employees”, reports Dario AMADE, Managing Director of AFRIDEV MATI.
The partnership between VERGNET HYDRO and AFRIDEV MATI is based on a win-win relationship. “For example, we have just won a new business for five new drinking water supply networks in the province of Gaza [8,300 rural people]. The final work acceptance is scheduled for December 2017 “, Romain DUBREUIL declares.
Drinking water, Mozambique, Réservoirs, Water tank line
Vergnet Hydro’s 1st drinking water supply project in Mozambique
Vergnet Hydro’s 1st drinking water supply project in Mozambique
Vergnet Hydro carries out with its local partner Afridev Mati its 1st piped drinking water networks project in Mozambique.
In total, 9 mini drinking water supply schemes powered with solar energy will be built by the end of March 2017.
This project is the opportunity to test a new type of water tank which has never been installed in Mozambique: an on-fill water tank with a capacity of 32 m³ at a height of 7 meters in the village of Pfukwe.
Click here to see the technical description of the water tank.