Guillaume Cubizolles, Operations Manager, Center East France region, and an experienced volunteer with Veoliaforce (past missions in China and Haiti), was on site for three weeks to oversee the successful completion of this task. He installed three networks operating in parallel, supplied from an existing bore. Each of these three networks, with the associated tanks and booster pumps, can distribute water with a different chlorine content: clear water, water chlorinated at 0.05 % and water chlorinated at 0.5 %. Each is designed for very specific uses for patient care, cleaning and disinfection. Around ten distribution points have been installed in various parts of the Center with different colored taps to clearly identify the different chlorine concentrations.
The creation of this Center and its operation, largely funded by the French authorities through the AFD (French Development Agency), is part of a broader action plan to combat the Ebola epidemic in Guinea.
The Foundation is providing advice and expertise for Guinea's national water service.
Last July, the Foundation, at the request of the Guinean Department of Energy and Water, signed a memorandum of understanding under which it agreed to provide advice and expertise to SNAPE (Institutional Support for the National Water Point Management Service) employees in the area of drinking water supply projects in rural and semi-urban areas.
Thanks to the Foundation's support, a first water supply system is already being installed in Damaro, Kérouané Prefecture in the country's west. It will supply water to a population of nearly 7,000 people.
A project to train Guinean technical supervisors is also being developed with the aim of adapting the Campus training program in the area of drinking water service engineering and management to the context of a developing country. The Foundation intends to provide this training with the assistance of Veoliaforce volunteers from the first half of 2015.
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