President of Republic Lays Foundation Stone for Extension of Project To Supply Nouadhibou With Drinking Water
On 23 December, His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the President of the Republic, laid the foundation stone for the project to supply the city of Nouadhibou with drinking water.
The realization of this project, financed by the Mauritanian State and the Arab Fund for Economic Development (FADES) for an amount of MRO 32 billion, will supply the cities of Nouadhibou and Boulenwar with drinking water until 2037.
In the speech he delivered on this occasion, Mr. Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Amar, the Minister of Water and Sanitation, said that this project would have positive repercussions on the development of Dakhlet-Nouadhibou and its prosperity.
He added that the laying of the foundation stone for the project by the President of the Republic demonstrates the depth of awareness of the problems of water and the interest in supplying the populations, stressing that the water file occupies a place of choice in the program of the President of the Republic “Taahoudati” executed by the government of the Prime Minister, Mr. Mohamed Ould Bilal.
It should be noted that the first phase of the project allows the construction of ten wells on the Boulenwar water table, with a capacity of 10,000 m3 / day, to support the drinking water supply system of the city of Nouadhibou, while the second concerns the completion of work at Boulenwar and the installation of a remote monitoring and control system.
It also includes the rehabilitation of old wells, the equipment of ten new ones, the construction of a 15 KV medium voltage power line for the operation of the new wells and the installation of 34.5 km of water pipes with a diameter of 200 to 500 mm for the collection network and 6.9 km of pipes with a diameter of 75 and 315 mm for the distribution network at Boulenwar in addition to the installation of a remote monitoring system and control of the drinking water network.
The third phase of the project concerns the construction of a water distribution network in Nouadhibou with a length of 43.1 km of pipes, the supply and completion of 3,000 new connections, as well as the supply and installation of 9 main flow meters.
The fourth will include the completion of an 800 mm diameter pipeline over a length of 76.55 km to transport water from Boulenwar to Nouadhibou and the construction of a new distribution pole in the city of Nouadhibou as well as the equipping a semi-buried reservoir with a capacity of 5,000 m3, building a pumping station with a flow rate of 388.8 m3/hour, acquiring and installing 7.76 km of pipes in iron with a diameter of 300 to 1000 mm in the city of Nouadhibou, the construction of buildings for administrative and technical services in the cities of Nouadhibou and Boulenoir and the supply of associated equipment.