Aiming to improve the water supply service to the city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado province, the Water Supply Investment and Property Fund, FIPAG, is implementing a set of actions to relieve the pressure on the system, which results from the demographic increase in that city, which limits the capacity to distribute water continuously.

With this project, FIPAG hopes to increase water production capacity to 35,000 cubic meters from the current 15,000 next year, and to expand the distribution network from 383 to 523 kilometers, thus increasing the number of beneficiaries.

As a result of the pressure on the system, the supply of water to the neighborhoods in the city of Pemba has been occurring alternately, according to the schedules announced to customers, on the one hand, and for the Reception Centers, the water supply has been through mobile fountains.

On the other hand, as part of the Water Supply and Institutional Support Project (WASIS II), the rehabilitation and expansion of the water supply system for the city of Pemba is underway, where 20 boreholes have already been drilled and are being equipped.

The pipeline that supplies the city was also rehabilitated and expanded, over a length of 50 kilometers, and the rehabilitation and expansion of the Water Treatment Plant and Pumping Stations are underway, as well as the rehabilitation and construction of new Distribution Centers and the construction of 140 kilometers of distribution network, with an overall investment value of US$38 million.

With these interventions FIPAG expects to increase the number of people with access to potable water to an additional 100,000, representing an increase in the coverage rate from the current 45 to 70 percent, and an average daily service from 6 to 15 hours.

FIPAG reinforces its commitment in the search for solutions to improve the water supply service to the population.