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Mozambique: World Bank Supports Water Resource Sector
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
15 February 2008
Posted to the web 15 February 2008
Maputo
Mozambique's Minister of Public Works, Felicio Zacarias, said in Maputo on Thursday that the government can improve its interventions in the area of water resources to respond to the development challenges facing the country.
He was speaking during a ceremony to launch the World Bank's Strategy for Assistance to Water Resources in Mozambique between 2008 and 2011.
The head of the World Bank project team, Len Abrams, said that to implement this strategy Mozambique needs 120 million US dollars, of which the World Bank will contribute between 20 and 35 million, while Mozambique and its other development partners will provide the remaining sum.
Zacarias explained that the launching of this strategy comes after the government has approved key guidelines, including a national water resource management strategy, a "Revised Water Resource Policy", and a set of regulations on water licensing and concessions.
"These legal instruments were drafted taking into account the most recent developments in water resources at world level, in the Southern African Development Community region (SADC), and in the country", he said.
He added that the strategy also takes into account Mozambique's hydrological characteristics, and it responds to the country's vulnerability, notably its heavy dependence on rivers shared with other countries. Nine major rivers flow through Mozambique, and all but one of them rise outside the country.
For her part, the World Bank's country programme manager in Mozambique, Susan Hume, said that the strategy includes recommendations for interventions by development partners and for the assistance by the World Bank in the sector of water resources during the 2008/11 period.
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The study includes measures to increase the positive impacts of water supply in the reduction of poverty.
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