Since access to sanitation has steadily increased over a period of ten years, the West African country of Ivory Coast will be massively investing in sanitation and drainage projects by 2030 to guarantee that a maximum of citizens have an improved quality of life.
The Ivorian authorities guarantee that the future infrastructures will support existing works such as “flood control dams, rainwater, and wastewater networks, sludge treatment stations, and sludge dumping stations. Ivorian households have also been connected to ONAD’s effluent network,” explains Konan Ahou, director of the monitoring of the operation and quality at the National Office of Sanitation and Drainage (ONAD).
Some $900 million will be invested over the next seven years to finance sanitation and drainage projects, that is to say, five times the investment made between 2013 and 2022 to that effect. The rate of access to sanitation was 22% in 2011. In 2021, that rate reached 56% – 74% in urban areas and 32% in rural areas. By improving sanitation and drainage, Ivory Coast is also looking to reduce flooding partly due to waste-blocking pipes.
