Africa-Press – Cape verde. The residents of the Alto de São Tomé area will only have water in the network at the beginning of next year. Promised as a Christmas present, work to solve the water problem in the area is still ongoing.
In progress for four months, the works to solve the lack of water in Alto de São Tomé have not yet finished.
Expected to be ready now, in December, the works should only be completed at the beginning of next year, to the sadness of those who expected to start the year with water in the network.
The company Águas da Ponta Preta is responsible for carrying out this project, which costs around 20 million escudos, which consists of building a new network over a length of 1,500 meters, a water pumping station and a reservoir measuring 200 cubic meters in altitude for gravity distribution.
Porto Novo City Council, owner of the project, estimates that this investment, financed under the Environmental Fund, will definitively solve the water problem in Alto São Tomé and surroundings, in the highest part of the city of Porto Novo .
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