By Peter Tasi
The Bamenda III Water catchment area located in Menteh, Nkwen, Bamenda III subdivision has given a facelift with new innovations put in place to the water plant which is said to guarantee water supply of 60000L to households from the previous 40000L it use to supply previously.
The innovations takes precedence over the challenges the people of Nkwen have had to suffer with little or no portable water in their respective quarters which was due to the drop in the flow from the water table in the months of February 15 to the month of March 2021.
The Bamenda III municipal authority under the development oriented Mayor Fonguh Cletus made it clear that the optimization done by the water engineers was to increase on the water quality and as well on the production which has been successful given that they have had to install new pumps, solar panels which enables the site to do filtration with energy while the new system now composes of a control box which the whole system is linked to. "The control panel is very important in that it is sensitive if the stability is too high, it makes the system to go off so as to avoid damage and it has an internet connection which enables our German engineers to monitor the production and equally repair from Germany." Mayor Fonguh enlightened while adding that even the waste water produced is not wasted since nearby farmers use on their farms and the new system guarantees reachability to many quarters and constant water supply to neighborhoods in the municipality. The Mayor and team however plan to install a solar panel around the Saint Paul school so much so that it pumps water into the reservoir and the supply done by gravity. The security challenges posed by the ongoing crisis however did not deter the German partners who brave all the odds to come upgrade the water plant together with their donations which the Mayor said aided to meet the needs of the water supply as the population demand. With more still needed to be done, Mayor Fonguh Cletus insist that "our future plan will be to construct a bigger reservoir storage facility both at the base and also somewhere in town on a high altitude for we may be facing now a challenge of storage."
Karli Heinisch one of the German engineers together with the project leader Gerd Müller did elaborated that the problem of heavy rainfall had caused the blockage of the filter which new methods were then introduced to have it cleaned and maintenance done as well as placing new parts for solidity in the future. With the new technology installed by the Trinkwasser Nongovernmental organisation as well as their other donators; ELIQUO KGN, ELIQUO STULZ, SWT, CENTER TECH, KROHNE, CONAQUA, LIONS CLUB WALS-SIEZENHEIN and another private donors, it has greatly improved on the water supply quality and quantity since there is now more possiblity of distribution to be made to various localities in the Bamenda III municipality.
The innovations carried out at the water catchment site by the water engineers includes an automatic system and an upgrade of the manual system which if there is failure then the manual system could be used. To maintain security of water supply 24/7 the introduction of the solar panel which controls the whole plant and a standby generator helps to distribute water up the hills of Menteh quarter.
The more than three billion CFA Francs budget the project has had to consume since 2016 as indicated by Mayor Fonguh Cletus, has for the last five years and counting stood the test of time to provide portable drinking water to inhabitants of the Bamenda III municipality.
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