Syndicat des Eaux dIle de France

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Syndicat des EauxdIle de France
Solidarity financing forwater supply and
sanitation
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• A publicly-owned DRINKING WATER SUPPLY COMPANY
  for the GREATER METROPOLITAIN PARIS AREA
• covers 144 boroughs located around the city of
  Paris
• serves 4 millions customers
• assets include 3 water treatment plants and 8 700
  km of pipe network
• Finances drinking water supply projects, mostly
  in africa asia
• since 1986, have disbursed 15 M in aid to NGOs
• in 2006, 144 mayors voted to earmark 0,006 per
  m3 of water sold / year
• in 2008, aid amounted to 1,6 Mwhich represents
  less than 1 / household / year

0,4 of 400 M
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SEDIFAmount of overseas development aid (1986
2010)
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Partnerships take the form ofmemorandum of
understanding (MoU)
MoU
SEDIF
Localauthority
A french based NGOacts on behalfof a local
authority
MoU
MoU
NGO
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Integrated water managementSainte Marie,
Madagascar

• 7 years construction of 20 small gravity flow
  systems and wells 15 000 users
• Very low cost of maintenance
• Difficulties
• Water from standposts is free in town,but is not
  in outlaying villages
• Dwindling water resources due to soil erosion
• Next steps
• Involving local autorities in the maintenance of
  gravity flow systems
• Protection of catchment bassins areas

dam
décanteur
réservoir
Stand post
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Managing drinking water servicesNinh Binh
province, VIETNAM

• 4 years construction of 5 WS systems 35 000
  users
• Subsidies covered
• 20 of the costs related to construction of
  infrastructure
• Training communal staff to manage WS systems
• Training provincial staff to monitor water
  quality
• Hygiene promotion construction of latrines in
  schools
• A mutual fund between bouroughs was created
• Each network manager pays 5 of water revenues
  into a commun account
• Next steps
• Monotoring performance indicatorsand providing
  technical assistance to managers

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Commune de Sfassifregion of Rabat, Marocco

• 2 years rebuilding a gravity flow system
  serving 2500 people
• 11km, it crosses 2 administratives areas(2
  communes, 2 provinces, 2 regions)
• The projects aims to
• Protect the spring catchment area heavily
  polluted by waste water from neibouring town
• Solve a long standing dispute between 2 users
  groups on water allocation
• Next steps
• Protect spring replace pipe network
• Connecting schools to the network
• Promoting household connections

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Surface water treatment for DWS,Rosso, Mauritania

• Villagers drink river water because
• groundwater is saline
• existing systems have broken down
• Local government want to
• organise maintenance monitor service delivery
• build 1 drinking water system
• Ties in with a project cofinanced by GoSpain
  andaluciasolidaria

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Thank you for your attentionMarc
Vézinam.vezina_at_sedif.com