The pipeline construction project has started and is continuing. The construction materials for this infrastructure have arrived in Taolagnaro.
Glimmer of hope for the South. The Efaho project is progressing “slowly, but surely”. Part of the construction materials for this water pipeline project in the South, called “Efaho Pipeline”, arrived in Taolagnaro yesterday.
“If this ship moored at the port of Ehoala, today (editor’s note: yesterday) with these materials, it is because there were activities carried out, between the official launch of the pipeline project in Ambovombe, in the month of April to date.
Technical, environmental, social and organizational preparatory work was carried out as part of this Efaho project, during this period,” the Minister of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene insisted, Fidiniavo Ravokatra, in front of the detractors of this major project, yesterday, during the arrival of the Triumph boat at the port of Ehoala Taolagnaro.
The cargo is made up of a thousand pipes which are approximately 11 kilometers long. “This ship from Turkey only transported the first wave of equipment, because the reception capacity of this port is limited. Other boats will still deliver the remaining pipelines,” continues Fidiniavo Ravokatra.
Sustainable solution
This giant pipeline project will measure 97 kilometers. It starts from the Efaho river, and the water will be pumped to Ambovombe Androy. It will serve sixty villages, forty of which are in the Anosy region and twenty in the Androy region.
It will cross Taolagnaro, Amboasary Atsimo, Ambovombe. This is a sustainable solution to the difficulty of accessing water in the Deep South, where drought is rife almost all year round. Once this project is completed, five hundred thousand people will benefit from drinking water, 80,000 hectares of agricultural land will be irrigated and one hundred and twenty water points intended for livestock will be set up.
“The water from this pipeline will not only be used for domestic uses. It will be used to irrigate our plains, to develop our projects to change our lives,” declared the governor of the Anosy region,
