The French Development Agency is to provide a €12.5 million grant to The Gambia government to implement the Greater Banjul Drinking Water Supply Project.
The project, which will be launched shortly, aims to improve the supply of drinking water to nearly 900,000 people in the Gambian capital.
Among the works planned are the rehabilitation of eight damaged reservoirs in Greater Banjul, as well as the construction of new elevated and ground water tanks to replace the existing facilities in Serrekunda, with capacities ranging from 500 to 900 m3.
The galvanized panels of three damaged elevated water tanks will also be replaced, as well as those of nine transfer pumps.
The transfer pump stations (Brikama North Line and Kotu Ring) will also be upgraded.
The project also includes the design and construction of two boreholes, including equipment and connection to the transfer line to the new Yundum reservoir.
Other parts of the project include connection of a borehole in the airport area to the transfer line to the new Yundum reservoir and MV line, design and installation of a 2.58 km transmission line from the borehole to the new Yundum elevated reservoir.
The National Water and Electricity Company of Gambia (Nawec) also announced the replacement of the chlorination system at existing water treatment plants with calcium hypochlorite.
And training in the operation and management of five of the plants in Greater Banjul.
A telemetric monitoring and control system will be put in place to supervise all the drinking water supply facilities, including 21 reservoirs, 16 wells in the Birkama field and 19 stand-alone wells.
By Inès Magoum
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