Access to clean water and sanitation and comprehensive freshwater management are essential to life, health, environment and economic prosperity in the developing countries. With more than 2 billion people globally living in countries with excess water stress and some 2.4 billion people with inadequate or no access to sanitation, SDG Goal No. 6 is undoubtedly one of the most important ones. Danish consulting engineers are globally known and acknowledged for our knowledge and results within freshwater management, water supply and sanitation. We design water and sanitation facilities, develop education programmes for hygiene and sanitation and water usage and provide capacity building to governments and local authorities in water and sanitation.
PROJECT: WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN CONFLICT-STRICKEN SOUTH SUDAN
The programme for the “Water Sector in Eastern Equatorial State” aims at improving Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) to ensure both productive use of water, safe water and improved sanitation in rural areas. The project gives access to improved drinking water (135,200 people), improved sanitation (15,800 people) and improved river basin management (25,600 people). Project-related infrastructure such as improved irrigation and water harvesting also increases water use efficiency and addresses water scarcity. Due to the escalation of the civil conflict in 2016, the project partly turned from a long-term development project into emergency relief. The project had to extend its scope by addressing the urgent demand for food security and related livelihoods.
COUNTRY: SOUTH SUDAN
COMPANY: NIRAS A/S
SECONDARY GOALS: 2