Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, inaugurated this Friday the system for capturing, treating and distributing water in the town of Quissol, 12 kilometers east of the city of Malanje.
It is an infrastructure capable of producing 720 cubic meters of water per hour from the Cuije River.
Budgeted at 31 million 237 thousand and 861 US dollars, financed by a credit line from China, the plant aims to reinforce the water supply system in the city of Malanje.
This infrastructure includes reservoirs, conduits, electromechanical equipment, administrative areas.
The capture system made it possible to make 12,000 new home connections in the urban core and neighborhoods of Canâmbua, Maxinde, Carreira de Tiro, Vila Matilde and Cangambo.
Work on the Quissol water collection, treatment and distribution system began in September 2017 and ended in April of the current year.
With the capacity to pump 15 thousand cubic meters of water and to store three thousand cubic meters, the infrastructure has a network extension of 120 kilometers.
Currently, the city of Malanje is supplied from the capture, treatment and distribution center in Guinea, with reduced capacity to meet current demand.
The situation has forced restrictions on the supply of water to the city of Malanje.
On the occasion, the national water director, Elsa Ramos, made it known that with the system now inaugurated, the city’s water supply capacity will increase from 575 to 1,295 cubic meters/hour.
With regard to beneficiaries, he said that the number rose from 55 thousand to 395 thousand, while home connections reached 22 thousand, against the current 10 thousand and 500.
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