The government is investing about US$85 million to improve the drinking water supply chain in the country.
Of that amount US$40 million are being applied to strengthen the supply of water to the city of Pemba, in Cabo Delgado, and US$22 million for water supply in the cities of Beira and Dondo in Sofala.
The Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, João Machathine, who gave the data to the press, said that the investment in the water supply infrastructures demonstrates the government’s efforts aiming at improving the quality of life of the population.
Machathine, who was speaking Thursday in the municipality of Matola, Maputo province, after inaugurating the Guava and Mathemele distribution centres, said that these new projects would increase access to drinking water by about 465,000 people in the Greater Maputo metropolitan area.
He explained that construction of the two water distribution centres costing around 570 million meticais was part of the financial agreement signed between the government and the Netherlands.
The inauguration of the Guava and Mathemele distribution centres marks the end of the chain of water production and distribution in the Greater Maputo region, after the inauguration a fortnight ago of the Sabié water treatment plant by President Filipe Nyusi.
