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Tanjoh Fridrick Tetuh |
Tanjoh Fridrick Tetuh,
the mayor of Batibo council in the North West Region of Cameroon has disclosed
that his council will organize a Water Forum on April 21, 2015. The information
was made public during the 2014 administrative, management and stores account
session that took place in the conference hall of the Batibo council on April
1, 2015. According to Tanjoh Fridrick, the 2015 Water Forum will permit the
council to sign Memorandums of Understanding with CAMAAY. Besides, he also
revealed that through the partnership, a chemical Engineer from France is
currently conducting a baseline survey on the sustainable management of
existing water schemes with emphasizes on the quality and treatment of water as
well as the protection of catchment areas. He lamented that accessibility to
some water catchment is the municipality is poor and preoccupying. He said the
main objective of the Forum is to reflect on ways on how water could be made
available to each household in the municipality. Water
is one of the most basic elements for life in his municipality.
Accordingly,
he said that shortages of water and sanitation are priorities reasons why
Batibo council is taking water issues seriously.
“Our intention is to
design a water policy for our municipality and demarcate the catchment areas”.
He also revealed that fortunately for the municipality, there are 21 water
catchments which should be protected. “We are establishing a tree nursery for
the purpose and we intend to train water management committees for
sustainability”. For example, he disclosed that the Guzan water supply scheme
needs to be improved by connecting to another network while in Kuruku, poor
maintenances is acute. Talking to the press, Tanjoh Fridrick added that bringing stakeholders together will ignite communities to engage in the protection of water catchments, and maintenance of existing water schemes. One of the council commended the clarion call by the councilor of Ashong for other communities to tap water from their land.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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