WaterAid | Mozambique - WaterAid (sitios de interés)

WaterAid | Mozambique

In Mozambique only 43% of the population has safe water and 32% have sanitation.

WaterAid has projects in two of the poorest and most remote regions of Mozambique: Niassa and Zambezia. In these rural areas WaterAid and its partners promote simple rope pumps, which are cheaply and easily maintained, and composting latrines.

In Niassa villages are being helped to become free from open defecation and since 2003, WaterAid has also worked towards achieving 100% water and sanitation coverage in five slum settlements of the capital Maputo and aims to extend this work to Quelimane in the future.

To ensure sustainability, low-cost technologies will continue to be developed and promoted, boreholes will be tested for bacteria and water quality tests will be carried out every three years.

(c) WaterAid 2008