According to the Director-General of Senegal’s National Water Company (SONES), Charles Fall, a 30 kilometres power line is under construction in the locality of Keur Momar Sarr in north-western Senegal.

The DG said the high-voltage line will be ready by latest November 2020 and will connect the third drinking water plant in Keur Momar Sarr to the Sakal electricity network in the Louga region of Senegal. The 30 km high-voltage line has been ordered for since 2019 as ‘Sones’ wants to connect the drinking water plant of Keur Momar Sarr (KMS) to the electricity network from Sakal, in the Louga region in north-west Senegal.

The DG said the line will be available between October and November 2020. It will be equipped with an automated control system that will allow for the reporting of all information at the level of the Senegalese National Electricity Company (Senelec) and at the Keur Momar Sarr plant.

The drinking water plant is the third of its kind to be built in the region of Keur Momar Sarr. This earned it the name (“KMS”3) and it is still under construction. He said work on the plant is about 90% complete and it is expected to be commissioned in 2021.

The Senegalese government has obtained loans of 424 million euros (nearly 279 billion CFA francs) from several financial institutions for the construction of the new drinking water plant at Keur Momar Sarr. Once operational, it will provide 100,000 m3 of water per day, expandable to 200,000 m3 of water per day. The new plant will serve 1 million people in the regions of Louga, Thiès and the capital Dakar. Still within the framework of this drinking water project, the government plans to make 85,000 social connections.