The Togolese Minister of Water and Village Hydraulics, Bolidja Tiem, and the Director of the French Development Agency (AFD) in Togo, Zolika Bouabdallah, inaugurated on April 1, 2023, a laboratory for the analysis of drinking water quality in the Greater Lomé area in Togo. This laboratory will test the water produced by the Cacavéli water treatment plant.
A new laboratory for the analysis and certification of drinking water quality is operational in Greater Lomé. The Togolese Minister of Water and Village Hydraulics, Bolidja Tiem and the Director of the French Development Agency (AFD) in Togo, Zolika Bouabdallah, inaugurated the laboratory on 1 April 2023.
Le ministre de l'@eau_tg, M. Bolidja TIEM et la directrice de l'Agence française de développement (AFD), Mme Zolika Bouabdallah, ont visité en compagnie des représentants @AmbUETogo le nouveau laboratoire de traitement d'eau potable de Cacaveli.@CommunicationTg@AFD_France pic.twitter.com/tHemiMgGzo
— Ministère de l'eau et de l'hydraulique villageoise (@eau_tg) April 2, 2023
According to the General Manager of the Société de patrimoine eau (SP-Eau), Samba Koubonou, who attended the inauguration ceremony, the laboratory will analyze water upstream and downstream of the Cacavéli water treatment plant, which serves 40,000 households in Greater Lomé.
Production of 50,000 m3 of water per day
According to the Water Information Center (C.I.EAU), there are 63 water potability criteria grouped into five major parameters, namely physico-chemical, organoleptic, microbiological, related to undesirable substances and parameters related to toxic substances.
Thus, every day, the laboratory will check the sulphate (less than 250 mg/liter), chloride (less than 200 mg/liter), potassium (less than 12 mg/liter), the hydrogen potential (PH) which must be between 6.5 and 9 and the hydrotimetric title (TH) of the water of 15 French degrees. The taste, color, smell, presence of pathogens, substances such as nitrates, nitrites and pesticides, as well as micropollutants such as arsenic, cyanide, chromium, nickel, selenium. The Cacavéli drinking water plant has a capacity of 50,000 m3 per day.
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The inauguration of the Lomé water analysis laboratory is part of Phase 2 of the Lomé Water Supply Improvement Project (AEP-Lomé), financed to the tune of 2 billion CFA francs (more than 3 million euros) by the AFD and the European Union (EU). In order to strengthen the supply of drinking water in Greater Lomé, 17 high-speed boreholes, 9 km of drinking water supply (AEP) and 200 km of distribution networks were also commissioned on Saturday, April 1, 2023.
Inès Magoum
