{"id":26705,"date":"2023-11-28T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vergnet-hydro.com\/vh\/?p=26705"},"modified":"2023-11-28T13:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:17:02","slug":"saher-supplies-drinking-water-8000-ivorians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vergnet-hydro.com\/vh\/en\/saher-supplies-drinking-water-8000-ivorians\/","title":{"rendered":"SAHER now supplies drinking water 24\/7 to 8,000 Ivorians"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A project combining social innovation (water service) and technological innovation (automatic solar standpipe or BFA) in several rural locations<\/h2>\n<p><strong>SAHER<\/strong>\u00a0installed <strong>17 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vergnet-hydro.com\/vh\/70101c_bfa_vgb_bd\">VERGNET HYDRO automatic solar standpipes (BFA)<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to provide <strong>a 24\/7 drinking water service to 8,000 Ivoirians over the next five years<\/strong>. <em>\u201cWe are particularly proud that German cooperation [Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit, or GIZ] has placed its trust in us to support this <strong>project that combines social innovation (water service) and technological innovation (BFA)<\/strong> in these rural localities,\u201d<\/em> enthuses <strong>Wagna MOTA, Director of SAHER<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The automatic solar standpipe is an autonomous system that offers uninterrupted community water point management. <em>\u201cBased on a solution used successfully <strong>in Africa for fifteen years<\/strong>, the automatic solar standpipe has been designed to meet the evolving requirements of drinking water service operators in semi-urban and rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. It uses <strong>photovoltaic solar power, is cashless (electronic payment) and is 100% secure<\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> indicates <strong>Gw\u00e9nol\u00e9 LE LAGADEC, Area Manager at VERGNET HYDRO<\/strong>. Out of the 17 standpipes, two were built into a building fa\u00e7ade (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vergnet-hydro.com\/vh\/70103a_kit_bfa_vgb_bd\"><strong>BFA kits<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<h3>The drinking water service started operating at each of the 17 water points in June 2023<\/h3>\n<p>The 17 standpipes were installed at<strong>\u00a0the end of the first semester 2023<\/strong>. <em>\u201cWe started to <strong>inform the local authorities<\/strong>, <strong>raise awareness among the local population<\/strong> and <strong>train technical staff<\/strong> so that the drinking water service will be <strong>operational in all localities since June 2023<\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> says <strong>Myriam TOGUYENI, SAHER\u2019s Projects Officer<\/strong>. SAHER\u2019s service also includes data collection which will help form a better understanding of requirements and then improve the scaling of future projects.<\/p>\n<p>This project is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/gruene-buergerenergie.org\/en\/\"><strong>Gr\u00fcne B\u00fcrger Energie (GBE) programme<\/strong><\/a> backed by <strong>German cooperation<\/strong> and aimed at the productive use of renewable energy and the electrification of social infrastructures in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project combining social innovation (water service) and technological innovation (automatic solar standpipe or BFA) in several rural locations SAHER\u00a0installed 17 VERGNET HYDRO automatic solar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,108,160,199,162,161,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cote-divoire-en","category-drinking-water","category-gestion-en","category-ivory-coast","category-management","category-service-de-leau-en","category-solar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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