Burkina Faso: Flush With New Funds for Water and Sanitation

OUAGADOUGOU, 28 March 2008 (IRIN) - Donors announced in March that they will invest US $1.2 billion into Burkina Faso’s water sector, to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving the number of people in the world who lack access to safe drinking water by 2015. (…) Ambitious infrastructures The new funds, which mostly come from the African Development Bank, World Bank and bilateral donors, will be used to boost access to sanitation for more than half of the country’s 14 million people and increase access to clean water for 4.2 million, or 30 percent of the population. (…)

Read more: IRIN, 28 March 2008