TOGO PRIME MINISTER LAUNCH URBAN WATER SECURITY PROJECT

Togolese Prime Minister, Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe, has launched the Urban Water Security Project (PaSH-MUT). Launched in Lomé, the capital, the project will help more people have drinking water in the Greater Lomé area. 

According to PM Tomegah-Dogbe, the PaSH-MUT should enable almost a million people in the Greater Lomé area to benefit from better services, related to water supply. The official added that 200,000 people living in this area will be connected, for the first time, to drinking water networks.

“This project covers a range of areas from drinking water supply to sanitation, water resource management, hygiene, and institutional strengthening with a major impact on young girls in schools,” said Minister of State, Minister of Water and Village Hydraulics, Yark Damehane.

In detail, during implementation, six autonomous drinking water supply systems will be set up in the outlying areas of Lomé. Moreover, the project will boost the water supply capacity of the Togolaise Des Eaux (TDE) in the Lomé municipality.

More specifically, boreholes, water supply, treatment, and storage systems will be built and rehabilitated under the project. And water distribution networks will be replaced and extended; all in line with the Greater Lomé Master Plan.

The World Bank has backed the project with $100 million. After its launch yesterday, Fily Sissoko, the Bank’s representative in Togo, said: “This project supports the sector reform framework, notably by mobilizing the private sector to help Togo provide water in sufficient quantity and quality to the greatest number of households in Greater Lomé.”

SOURCE: Togofirst