Ouagadougou: The Project to Strengthen the Rainwater Sanitation Network in the City of Ouagadougou (PRAVO) handed over on Tuesday two dump trucks and a loader shovel, worth around 230 million of FCFA to enable the municipality to better manage waste management. As part of the implementation of the Project to strengthen the rainwater sanitation network in the city of Ouagadougou, the Minister in charge of Urban Planning, Mikaïlou Sidibé, handed over 2 dump trucks and a loading shovel, worth around 230 million FCFA, to the municipal authorities. According to the Minister in charge of Urban Planning, this donation results from the collaboration and coordination of sanitation and rainwater management actions undertaken by his department, with a view to offering a quality public service to citizens. For him, this equipment, the result of pooling resources, will strengthen the municipality's fleet and enable it to respond 'effectively and sustainably' to flooding problems. For the president of the special deleg ation of the municipality of Ouagadougou, Maurice Konaté, he and his colleagues have just received 'essential equipment in terms of sanitation'. According to the city's first official, this equipment will allow his municipality to better carry out the work of cleaning gutters and transporting rainwater waste in order to avoid possible flooding. He took the opportunity to thank the Ministry of Urban Planning and Housing, which is, according to him, a reliable partner of local authorities in general and of the municipality of Ouagadougou in particular. For the project coordinator, Solimane Hamed Ouattara, also general director in charge of town planning, this material completes a first batch delivered in August 2023. It aims to increase the operational capacities of the municipality in terms of waste management from the Bangr-Weogo canal. As a reminder, PRAVO was identified by a mission from the West African Development Bank following the floods that occurred on September 1, 2009. It concerns the section of the Kadiogo backwater between the immediate downstream of dam number 3 and the downstream of the confluence of the Bendogo and Kadiogo backwaters. Source: Burkina Information Agency