WATER FOR THE WORLD

SUCCESS STORIES

Improving water management (Cameroon)

Cameroon

Scope: Douala.

Objective: Improve water management for 50,000 people.

Method: Improvement in infrastructures and training managers. Implementation of a water authority system.

EU contribution: 1.4 million euros.

Success stories:

• Promotion of water management projects (Southern Mediterranean)
• Improvement of hygienic conditions (Nicaragua)
• Supplying drinking water in deprived periurban communities (Congo)
• Water supply and treatment (Tanzania)
• Reconciling the sustainable management of water resources with industrial development (China)