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Vergnet Hydro has been awarded an €18 million contract to rehabilitate 1,000 boreholes in Ivory Coast.
- The rehabilitation is part of the government’s Water for All Programme.
- The funds for the project will be provided as a concessional loan from France.
French company Vergnet Hydro, a subsidiary of the Odial Solutions group, has been awarded an €18 million contract to rehabilitate 1,000 boreholes in Ivory Coast as part of the government’s ‘Water for All’ programme. The funds will be provided as a concessional loan from France. The Water for All programme aims to improve the drinking water supply for 600,000 people in the West African nation.
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Vergnet Hydro plans to fit each borehole with a solar and a manual pump as well as a 4 cubic metres tank. With the installation of solar panels at each borehole site, the pumps will provide power when there is a power cut from the grid and ensure that there is a 24-hours supply of potable water. The unreliable power supply has led to inefficiency in existing electric boreholes.
Lat February, Vergnet Hydro also won a contract to build 17 drinking water supply systems across several regions in Ivory Coast. These systems included 12 electric and five mixed (solar/electric or solar/thermal) systems ranging from 4 to 7 kWp.