Type of service provide :

• Determining and assessing the vulnerability of water resources, aquifer geometry and the relationship between different aquifer layers; conducting an isotopic study and hydrodynamic modelling;
• Creating a GISWEB, an online geographic information system for water resources;
• Organizing a training workshop for APAL and DGRE staff on modelling and GISWEB;
• Assessing the vulnerability of communities, estimating losses in arable land;
• Proposing an action plan to protect the water resource, and recharge aquifers using non-conventional water sources (treated wastewater);
• Proposing institutional and regulatory arrangements.

Type of service provided :

• Assessing the health and environmental situation of each settlement and of the existing sanitation infrastructure;
• Determining the collection and transfer network layouts for all settlements, optimising the choice of treatment sites and technical solutions, focusing on less operationally expensive treatment options, and determining the investment and operating costs of each solution;
• Assessing the current ONAS organisational set-up and skills and proposing appropriate measures;
• Analysing the environmental and social issues in each settlement through 80 household surveys, assessing the option of reusing treated wastewater for agriculture, incorporating the effects of climate change and implementing an environmental and social management framework (ESMF) for the programme;
• Assessing the financial profitability of the programme and the infrastructure operating costs, defining criteria for prioritising the interventions to be planned;
• Defining technical assistance needs and prioritising the packages to be used for future works contracts.