{"id":19262,"date":"2022-05-16T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uduma.net\/?p=19262"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:59:54","slug":"mali-guaranteed-convenient-access-drinking-water-45000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uduma.net\/en\/mali-guaranteed-convenient-access-drinking-water-45000-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: guaranteed and convenient access to drinking water, 7 days a week, for more than 45,000 people!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Picture caption: One of the 18 demonstrator mini solar DWS systems\u00a0set up by UDUMA in Fakola (Cercle of Kolondi\u00e9ba, Bougouni Region).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>UDUMA MALI service quality for improved access to drinking water<\/h2>\n<p>UDUMA MALI (Bougouni, Mali) is offering more than 45,000 Malians access to drinking water by simply turning a tap. <strong>The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rvo.nl\">RVO, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency<\/a>) has given the green light for the installation of 75 Improved Village Water Supply Systems (mini solar drinking-water supply (DWS) systems) in the Bougouni region.<\/strong> This is a milestone in the Malian company\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The private operator has committed to provide its drinking water supply service to each of these 75 mini solar DWS systems, for the next 15 years. <em>\u201cUntil now, UDUMA MALI only ran rehabilitated manual pumps. Now we have introduced these mini solar DWS systems, <strong>users benefit from (1) a long-term UDUMA service guarantee at every type of water point, and from (2) a more modern, more convenient access to water<\/strong>. We\u2019re delighted to be able to offer unprecedented quality improvement,\u201d<\/em> enthuses <strong>Alinta GELING, Operations Officer at UDUMA MALI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Switching to solar power, the cornerstone of a sustainable service<\/h3>\n<p>Progress demands that, within the next few years, everyone should have access to a truly reliable and sustainable water service (\u201cBy 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all\u201d\u2009\u2013 Goal 6.1 of the 2030 AGENDA). But is this economically feasible in the short term in all rural African settings? <strong>Backed by funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitol.com\/vitol-foundation\">VITOL Foundation<\/a>, in spring 2021 UDUMA MALI set up 18 demonstrator mini solar DWS systems in volunteer villages equipped with manual pumps in the Bougouni region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally intended to study the revenue sharing generated by manual pumps and mini solar DWS systems, this R&amp;D project proved the main inspiration for the extensive programme co-financed by UDUMA MALI and RVO. The initial results from this full-scale test proved that a mini solar DWS system yields much higher financial contributions from users than a manual pump. <em>\u201cThese contributions generate <strong>revenues that can cover not only the operating costs of these solar installations, but also a share of the costs of the other associated drinking water points, notably those with manual pumps<\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> explains <strong>Youssouf SIDIBE, Project Officer at UDUMA MALI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Like the 18 demonstrators, the 75 mini solar DWS systems will comprise a community standpipe and a 5 m3 water tower (4 m high) topped with solar panels powering a submersible pump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture caption: One of the 18 demonstrator mini solar DWS systems\u00a0set up by UDUMA in Fakola (Cercle of Kolondi\u00e9ba, Bougouni Region).\u00a0\u00a0 UDUMA MALI service quality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16,34,9,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication-2","category-drinking-water","category-mali-2","category-news","category-service-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mali: guaranteed and convenient access to drinking water, 7 days a week, for more than 45,000 people! - Uduma<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UDUMA MALI service quality for improved access to drinking water. 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