U.S$18m RAW WATER PIPELINE COMPLETED IN LIBERIA

The construction of Liberia U.S$18 Million Raw Water pipeline has been completed according to a video posted on Millennium Challenge Account-Liberia (MCA-L) facebook page with the agency implementing the project.

The completion now meant that the Raw water project will now be able to boost quality water supply to about 1M people in Monrovia, as well as helping to address Liberia’s post-war perennial limited access to safe drinking water by close to 90% of the country’s population.

Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC), owned the project with help from the US government agency, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) under the United States Government Compact with Liberia helped financed the 48-inch diameter pipeline project.

It is expected that the pipeline will draw water from the dam of the Mt. Coffee Hydropower Plant to the White Plains Water Treatment Plant in Rural Montserrado and then to Monrovia.

One important thing about the project is that LWSC will save approximately US$780,000 a year in electricity costs as the pipeline uses gravity, instead of electric pump, to pull water into the treatment plant from the St. Paul River.

Furthermore, the project is not just boosting quality water supply and cutting down on LWSC expenditure. It is also having an impacted in the economy of the local community by employing 114 persons, with 79 coming from the surrounding communities of White Plains and Harrisburg.

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