The government of Alassane Ouattara has granted Veolia a 15-year agreement to work and maintain another drinking water treatment plant close to Abidjan, Veolia reported on Wednesday.

In 2018, the Ivorian government previously trusted the consortium Veolia-PFO Africa with the plan, development, and authorizing of the La Mé plant.

The plant, which has been functional for quite a long time, is situated on an eight-hectare site 30 km north of the capital Abidjan.

At full capacity, the Mé Plant will deliver 240,000 m3 of drinking water a day, which ought to cover the everyday requirements of Abidjan’s 2.4 million occupants.

The plant will treat surface water drawn from the La Mé stream, a first for Abidjan, which up to this point has been provided exclusively by groundwater.

“I’m very proud of this new contract won in Ivory Coast with our partner PFO Africa. It confirms our Group’s ambitions in this region and our capacity to support countries in their ambition to develop and sustain essential structures that improve access to water for citizens in the long run and contribute to their country’s economic development.” specifies Estelle Brachlianoff, Chief Executive Officer of Veolia.

Who is Veolia?

As their website states, “Veolia Group aims to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Present on five continents with nearly 220,000 employees, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical solutions for the management of water, waste and energy that are contributing to a radical turnaround of the current situation. Through its three complementary activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, to preserve available resources and to renew them. In 2022, the Veolia group provided 111 million inhabitants with drinking water and 97 million with sanitation, produced nearly 44 million megawatt hours and recovered 61 million tonnes of waste. Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE) achieved consolidated revenue of 42.885 billion euros in 2022.”

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