Cameroon and China have clinched an agreement to increase water production and distribution in Cameroon’s economic capital Douala. Bankrolled by a 11-billion CFA loan from Pekin (16.17) million euros, 24 million dollars), the project includes the construction of pipes, wells and a potable water treatment plant.
The Chinese firm, CGC overseas Construction Co., is to realise the project, which reprotedly begins in January, 2008 and aims to boost Douala’s water production capacity from 115,000 to 260,000 cubic metres in a year.
Only a third of Douala’s inhabibtatants currently have direct access to potable water and the city regularly suffers from cholera epidemics.