Africa-Press – Angola. The Cuanza Sul Provincial Water and Sanitation Company (EPASKS EP) began, Saturday, to supply treated water to the city and periphery of the municipality of Porto Amboim, five years later.
The restoration of the supply of drinking water resulted from the desilting of the treatment system’s reservoirs, which allows the daily use of 75 kilograms of aluminum sulphate and three kilograms of chlorine.
The initiative will make it possible to distribute 130 cubic meters of water per hour to the population of Porto Amboim.
With this action, the city and periphery of Porto Amboim stopped receiving raw water, a reality that lasted five years.
The member of the Consultation and Social Dialogue Council, António Vieira, praised the resumption of the start-up of the Water Treatment Station (ETA), paralyzed for more than five years.
“Now I think there is a need to review the distribution network, since its quality is now improved, as well as customers paying regularly for consumption”, stressed António Vieira.
The Porto Amboim Water Treatment Station has 40,000 cubic meter reservoirs, a collection system for 200 cubic meters per hour and distributes 130 cubic meters per hour.
In December last year, the Provincial Water and Sanitation Company of Cuanza Sul (EPASKS.EP) installed two hydraulic pumps at the catchment center on the Queve River, which aimed to replace the obsolete pumps and improve the supply of water to the city of Porto Amboim.
The equipment was donated by the National Directorate of Water and has a capacity of 250 cubic meters each.
The Porto Amboim water system was built in 1958.
The city and the periphery receive water by gravity, from the reservoirs of the pumping station located in the Medungue neighborhood.
Reinforcement work on the stagnant water system
The work on reinforcing the drinking water supply system for Porto Amboim has been paralyzed since 2017 and influences, according to the members of the residents’ councils, in reducing the distribution of liquid to an estimated population of more than 80,000 inhabitants.
Press learned that the work to reinforce the Porto Amboim water supply system, commissioned in 2015, costs 60 million and 73 thousand kwanzas, and is the responsibility of the company CGCCO, and under the supervision of the firm INGESFISCO.
Initially, according to official sources the project required the construction of two water tanks with a capacity of five thousand cubic meters each and only one of that size has been built on site.
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