Cap on the supply of drinking water in the city of Yaoundé and its surroundings: Akomnyada project
With a production capacity of 135,000m³, AKomnyada's water collection, production and treatment station supplies the capital city with an estimated 75% contribution. This factory also serves the city of Mbalmayo. Built since 1985, the station is insufficient because of the demographic boom. The water requirement amounts to more than 300 000 m³ / day against 180 000 m³ water produced by this station. Faced with this shortage, the government has initiated the extension of this station of 55,000 m³ / day. With the support of the Exim Bank of the United States, the project took shape in 2017. Today the station supplied 135 000 m³, certainly below the production capacity and the need. But it has been rehabilitated and upgraded to produce 180,000 m³ / day. However, it is running at 135,000 m³ / day because the Nkoayos pumping station is limited to this volume. For the time being, rehabilitation works have been started to fill this gap. Added to this are other challenges: the obsolescence of the distribution ducts, which causes 30% of the produced water to be lost and the distribution yield is of the order of 70%; the execution of the rehabilitation project for these conduits is slowed down by traffic. However, efforts are being made to close the gap in the city's drinking water supply.
