PRO-POOR SANITATION SOLUTIONS: THE CASE OF DAKAR
Kane A. Alioune, Samba Ba, Awa N.Fall and Ndeye F. Toure
The capital city of Senegal, Dakar, is home to nearly 2.86 million inhabitants (UN 2009) that constitute about 30 per cent of the country’s total population. In 1960 the city’s population was 359 000 (UN 2009), but has grown eightfold since then.
WATER DEMAND AND SUPPLY Saint-Louis Louga Daraa Thiès Dakar Joal-Fadiout Karang Fatick Kaolack Nioro Du Rip Koungheul Maka Ziguinchor Kolda Kolomba Tambacounda Dalafi
Water consumption in the city was estimated at 286 000 m3
/day in 2008, and projected to reach 346 000 m3 /day by
Economic activities in Dakar contribute 55 per cent of Senegal’s GDP, and account for 66 per cent of employees in the country’s formal sector (ANSD 2011).
The city of Dakar, located on the peninsula of Cape Vert, covers an area of 550 km2
(Ngagne 2007). The population of the city is
growing at an annual rate of 2.4 per cent (ANSD 2011), causing a disparity between demand and supply of basic services such as improved drinking water and sanitation. In addition, huge volumes of solid waste amounting to 1 200 tonnes per day are generated in the city (ANSD 2011), and this is neither adequately collected nor appropriately disposed of.
48 WASTE WATER TREATMENT AND DISCHARGE
In 2003, only 25 per cent of Dakar’s households was connected to the sewerage system. Much of the city’s sewer network was built in the 1950s and 1970s, and comprises about 742 km of pipes and 43 pumping stations (Hoang-Gia and others 2004).
2020 (ANSD 2011). Due to fears of saltwater intrusion, the city gradually reduced water withdrawals from groundwater sources, and in 2009, about 75 per cent of the city’s water was taken from Lake Guiers, while the remainder came from boreholes (Sow 2009). There is evidence of groundwater pollution in some of these boreholes and concentrations of nitrates up to as much as 50 mg/l have been registered from these sources (Sow 2009).
Vélingara Fourdou Mamâri Richard-Toll Lagbar Thilogne Matam
/day, 78 per cent of which came from fossil aquifers and the remainder from Lake de Guiers, a reservoir on the Senegal River (Hoang-Gia and others 2004). At that time, about 76 per cent of Dakar’s households had within-plot piped supply, 19 per cent got water from community standpipes, and about 5 per cent depended on other sources such as wells and water vendors (Brocklehurst and Janssens 2004).
In 2004, Dakar’s daily water supply was estimated at 240 000 m3
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