Douala Urban Council To Embark On Drainage Sludge Management Within The City

Fritz Ntone Ntone, Delegate of the government to the Urban Community of Douala, the local district authority encompassing the Cameroonian economic capital, chaired on 28 March a workshop to present the document-project on structuring the drainage sludge market, revealed the pro-government daily.

This programme, we learned, is meant to organise a market for the 1,300 m3 of drainage sludge produced on a daily basis in the economic capital, and of which barely 50% is actually processed; to produce energy for households and thus protect the environment.

Even though the initiative is globally approved, discussions between the programme stakeholders are stumbling over how to raise the funds necessary to its implementation. While some recommend the collection of a cleaning tax, others are mentioning the possibility of public-private partnerships, which would then require the involvement of local governments, households and companies operating in the drainage sector.

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