Angola: Government Committed to Providing Potable Water

Posted November 8, 2006 in [Water]

Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

The Angolan Government has been developing several water projects countrywide with a view to securing potable water to every citizen, said Saturday in Luanda the vice minister of Water and Energy, Rui Tito.

According to the deputy minister, key captation and distribution centres, at central level, have already been rehabilitated and built, whereas locally, in the provincial governments have been recovering the district and communal systems.

The vice minister said so, following calls for supply of improved water, particularly to schools, as part of the effort to control cholera and other endemic disease.

"The goal is to make water available to every citizen as near as possible to their homes," stressed the deputy minister, adding that for the time being it is not possible to get drinking water in desired quantities all over the country.

"The current shortage of water will be lessened in a near future, with the ongoing rehabilitation programmes and extension systems," he said.

Luanda alone, for example, requires five years to invest in the rehabilitation or launch of some thousand kilometres of the distribution network.

The Government will spend large amounts towards a good social living of the populations, he underlined.