Cameroon: SOWEDA installs another water plant in Alou-Lebialem Division

The community of Menkia-Nwametaw in Alou Sub-division, Lebialem had never had good potable drinking water. The inhabitants of Alou have often had to indulge in huge financial engagements to battle between bad drinking water and poor health caused by a nearby stream which to them have been the sole source of drinking water in the village for centuries.  The over 1500 residents  of MENKIA-NWAMETAW  expressed joy that life was now restored on Thursday the 31^st of  March 2016 during the handing over ceremony of the MENKIA-NWAMETAW Water Scheme constructed by the South West Development Authority, SOWEDA.

Cameroon Concord’s Cham Victor  Bama who traveled to Alou for the ceremony reported that only tears shed during the ceremony could describe how the community had been in desperate need of the precious liquid. At long last, the MENKIA-NWAMETAW community can now boost of potable drinking water. Six stand taps have been constructed across the village by the South West Development Authority. 

The Menkia Water Scheme has  a constructed stream catchment  with supply and distribution pipelines.  In the treatment station is an up flow roughing filter, slow sand filter and a storage tank. Low and high point chambers, stand pipes and valve chambers have been adequately constructed and equipped to fit the standard of the water supply system. A 5 cubic metres break pressure and storage tank shave been manned in the structure. The MENKIA-NWAMETAW water scheme have cost the South West Development Authority over 19 million francs.

A committee headed by the chairman of the Menkia village council, Tamochop Sylvester  was  mandated to judiciously enable and oversee the sustainable management of the 5 cubic meters  water catchment including the 6 cubic meters storage tank. Tamochop Sylvester  and the National President  of the Menkia Cultural and Development Association, Ndi Nkemafor Philip , expressed great satisfaction to SOWEDA for answering one of the greatest worries faced by the community.  The traditional ruler of Menkia HRM Ndi Nkemlebe Christopher observed that the SOWEDA funded water project was a time health bomb server that would transform the future of his community forever. Said His Royal Highness Ndi Nkemlebe, “The days of Typhoid and Cholera are over”.

The General Manager of SOWEDA was represented in the ceremony by SOWEDA’s  Ashu Stephen.The Menkia-Nwa is one among the numerous water supply schemes under taken by the South West Development Authority across some local communities in the South West Region.