REHABILITATION OF HYDRAULIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN SOUTHERN MADAGASCAR

Country : Madagascar

Service : Water resources

Client : UNGP MIONJO

Partner : MIARY

Duration :  14/05/2021-14/01/2022

Total amount : €163,500

Studies of water resources at the Mandrare-Sampona and Ampotaka-Beloha pipeline abstraction points

The aim of the MIONJO project (supporting resilient livelihoods in southern Madagascar) is to improve communal and inter-communal infrastructure and local economic development for the people of southern Madagascar, who are among the most vulnerable on the island.
The Government of Madagascar and the World Bank have agreed that this MIONJO project should also include structuring investments in the water sector (drinking water and water for agricultural use).

Type of service provided :

Conducting an assessment of the flow that could be sustainably pumped from each of the pipelines’ abstraction points (Ampotaka and Amboasary) in preparation for designing the pipelines and protecting the water abstraction sites.

  • Assessing the characteristics of the groundwater resources at the 2 study sites (exhaustive water point inventory, literature study, physico-chemical analysis campaign);
  • Conducting a study to determine the best way to protect the banks upstream and downstream of the Ampotaka abstraction point;
  • Carrying out geophysical studies to locate drilling points;
  • Drilling 3 reconnaissance boreholes and conducting pumping tests;
  • Producing a conceptual hydrogeological model and assessing the water balance.

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