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- Clementina Artur, the woman in charge of Caboqueiro community water point (Sumbe-Angola), shows how access to clean water is transforming daily life
- Isabel Sambovana, in front of her bathroom. She is one of the beneficiaries of the installation of latrines in the Sumbe community
- A Massive Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) constructed in Sumbe (Angola) as part of the Institutional and Sustainability Support to Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project. Before the AFDB funding, no wastewater treatment existed in Sumbe, a city of 350,000 inhabitants
- Helena Maindo, EPASK (Kwanza Sul Public Water and Sanitation Company) worker doing the chemical and microbiological analysis of the state of the water
- The intern, Gilda Giza Rede, working at the Sumbe WWTP
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African Development Bank Group (AfDB) |
The Power of Water: How the Angola Institutional and Sustainability Support to Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project is Transforming Lives
The project, set to conclude in December of 2025 after a decade of implementation, has delivered remarkable results: the seven utility companies supported by the project have made a total of more than 59,008 household water connections
“Before this support, we had a lot of difficulties accessing water. We used to fetch it from the river. It was very distant for us, and we suffered from many diseases. But now, since we’ve had water available to everyone, cholera has decreased significantly, infections have decreased a lot, too,…
