Far North: Potable drinking water at Mindif and Soulédé-Roua

Work on the provision of potable drinking water in Mindif, Department of Mayo-Kani, and Soulédé-Roua, Department of Mayo-Tsanaga, has just been approved by public authorities.

Initially, making the supply of water available was simply a dream project in these two communities are denominated by two rocky ridges.

At Mindif, the authorities went 15 km near the Lubour village to find a field for the easy supply of water to Mindif city. Work on this big project that cost more than 980 million CfaF has recently been approved on an interim basis by an interdepartmental team.

At Mindif-centre, 40 hydrants are functional. Four others serve the locality which houses the capture source. The mission led by Jean-Jacques Yepmou, Director of planning of the territory at Minepat, ensured that drinking water was actually available in the hydrants and in a few homes.

Final approval will take place in a year. This delay is necessary for the beneficiaries of this project to train and develop a local Management Committee for perpetuating this important facility. This is what was recommended to Mayor Sadjo Hamawa of Mindif when he was officially handed the key to the main valve.

Mindif water supply project was directed by a Cameroonian enterprise. It has a water tower of 150 m 3 built on one of the flanks at the peak of Mindif, 44 fire hydrants and a solar pump of 26 000 watts peak power unit. The distribution network spans 13 900 linear metres through the channels of the Mindif locality.

At Soulédé-Roua, connection has been made from Gouzda through to Mokolo-Mora, a distance of 27 km. The people’s distress of the lack of water is now a thing of the past in this area where the search for the essential ammenity often turns into a drama.

30 standpipes served small groups at Soulede-roua. Before the provisional acceptance of the work, the members of the inter-ministerial mission had wanted to ensure that all these facilities met the rules of the art and especially the quality of the water that flows in faucets.

This water supply project, whose studies were carried out by the Mission of Développement Intégré des Monts Mandara (MIDIMA) since 2005, was funded with about 1.15 billion FCfa.

During the meeting at MIDIMA at Mokolo, the head of the mission instructed the different actors in charge to execute these works, to which a period of one year is granted, for the adjustments of the different recorded tracker points.