R29m deal to run tap water into Maputo

A consortium of Dutch companies will design a new drinking water distribution system for the northern part of the city of Maputo, supplying 550 000 residents and 20 000 homes, said a company statement. It said that Royal HaskoningDHV, an engineering and project management services company, in consortium with water supply company Vitens Evides International, had been hired by the Fund for Water Supply Investment and Assets (Fipag) to carry out all the tasks needed for the project’s development phase. The contract is worth the equivalent of R29 million, which will be financed by the Netherlands through a subsidy from Orio, an infrastructure development organisation of the Ministry for Cooperation and Development. The new water distribution system will be part of the Corumana water supply system, a project financed by the World Bank with a R1.4 billion loan to the Mozambican government, and which will provide Maputo with 60 000 cubic metres of drinking water per day from the Corumana dam. In the second phase the water supply capacity will be increased to 120 000 cubic metres per day.