Rwanda’s Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Programme will receive funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB).
A major construction programme is on the way.
In Rwanda, the rate of access to drinking water and sanitation has exceeded 80% since 2014.
Yet there are peri-urban and rural areas that show disparities.
It is currently the country’s largest investment programme according to the African Development Bank (AfDB), which has also announced that it will finance the project, with a total of 115 million euros.
Funding for this new phase of Rwanda’s Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Programme will provide safe drinking water to 1.5 million people, 700,000 of whom live in villages or peri-urban areas.
In the city of Kigali, for example, the government plans to build a drinking water supply system that should also benefit people living on the periphery.
They will be supplied by the Gasanze, Kanyinya and Bweramvura pumping stations.
With regard to sanitation, it is planned to build a centralised sewer system comprising an 86.5 km network and 3.1 km of sewer main pipes.
Like the AfDB, other development partners have invested in this programme.