AFD provides €70m to improve water and sanitation in Morogoro

The Government of Tanzania and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed a financing agreement for a 70M€ concessional loan (approximately 180 bn TZS) aiming at improving water supply and sanitation services for the residents of Morogoro Municipality.

In Morogoro, about 70% of the population is connected to the drinking water network with an average of about 10 hours of water distribution per day, and less than 5% is connected to the sewerage network. The program’s ultimate goal is to improve inhabitants’ living conditions, the environment, as well as the city’s economic development through the extension and renovation of drinking water and sanitation services. In particular, it aims to :

• Give continuous and sustainable access to quality water to 90% of the population by 2025 and reduce water losses by 10% through the tripling of the drinking water production capacity of the existing Mafiga water treatment plant and the renovation and extension of storage and distribution network infrastructures;
• Guarantee the sustainability of the water resource by conducting a Water Resource Master Plan which will determine the best options to secure the water resource, including the raising of the Mindu Dam providing 70% of the water consumed in the city;
• Give access to sanitation services to at least 15% of the population by 2025 through the extension and restoration of sewerage networks and wastewater treatment facilities;
• Ensure that specific measures are undertaken for low-income households (standpipes or individual connections).

This event represents an important step forward in AFD’s cooperation with the government of Tanzania, which started more than 20 years ago and has significantly increased since then. The water and sanitation sector has historically been one of AFD’s primary sector of intervention in Tanzania with 258 M€ (655 bn TZS) committed to this sector over the last 10 years.

Original source: AFD
Published on 27 May 2020