Return the challenges of access to drinking water among the demanding populations, this has motivated the movement of the minister of Hydraulics and Sanitation in the department of Koumpentoum on Monday. Cheikh Tidiane Dièye was to preside over the inauguration ceremony of the Bélél borehole, which cost more than 330 million of our francs and funded by the State of Senegal and its USAID partners.By Abdoulaye Fall –
This is the end of the ordeal. Yes, finished the hypothetical search for water in Bélél and surroundings, also finished the march of tens of kilometers to find water, especially finished the morning chores around the deep wells to collect only a reddish water. It was in these terms that the populations of affected Bélél and the surrounding area, in Niani, the Minister Cheikh Tidiane Dièye was addressed on Monday. The Minister of Hydraulics and Sanitation was to inaugurate the drilling of this patelin nestled in the department of Koumpentoum, where the populations suffered from the lack of water. Sometimes they remember, it is a reddish liquid that they collected after having fired on the rope over several tens of meters. Today is the end of the tunnel for these fellow citizens. Water flows in waves in the village. The State of Senegal and its USAID partners helped strong. “More than 330 million were mobilized to carry out the work,” says Cheikh Tidiane Dièye. It is on the instruction of President Diomaye Faye and his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko that we launched these major structural transformation projects. And, as soon as we heard the distress cries of women of Bélél affected around the deep wells in search of hypothetical water, we immediately reacted. ” “Today is a new page that opens for populations. They will no longer need to make great distances or pull to run out on the strings. Water flows to waves, ”says the minister. He adds: “There is now drinking water, accessible and at a lower cost. And this is all the meaning given to the highway so -called water that we plan to achieve. This will allow equitable access to water. ” To the populations and especially to the company responsible for the exploitation of the work, the Minister to hammer: “Make good use!”
At La Soges, in charge of exploitation, he confides: “Favor concertation and dialogue with the populations. Do not wait until there is a breakdown or a problem to react, you must always anticipate. ”
