Kinshasa/Geneva — UNEP has initiated a water scheme in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that aims to protect the Lukaya river basin that supplies almost 380,000 Kinshasa residents with safe drinking water.
The project builds on the recommendations of UNEP's Post Conflict Environmental Assessment (PCEA) of the DRC - the full version of which was made available online in November 2012 - that identified 13 major "hot spots" of environmental degradation in and around urban centers in the country. Much of the environmental pressure is due to rapid population growth and unplanned development in urban areas that are also extremely poor and have inadequate basic infrastructure and local services.
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