ARTICLE - SPAIN - WATER FOR 2 MILLION

WATER FOR 2 MILLION HAITIANS THANKS TO SPAIN
(Haiti Libre) -

Taking advantage of the celebration of World Water Day on March 22, the Spanish Cooperation renews once again the commitment of Spain for the human right to water in Haiti to be a reality through the actions implemented through the Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation (FCAS, in Spanish).

With this fund, the Spanish Cooperation will finance similar programs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean until 2015, whose most important program is the one which is in the implementation phase in Haiti.

The primary objective of FCAS is to reduce by half before 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation.

In Haiti, the Spanish Cooperation Fund has approved a total of five programs: A Bilateral Program, implemented in partnership between the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation (AECI), the National Directorate for Water Supply and Sanitation (DINEPA), and four Multilateral Programmes, channeled through the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), also performed with DINEPA. These programs will benefit more than 2 million Haitians.

The Fund in Haiti, in execution since 2010, envisages actions of investment in water infrastructure and sanitation in an urban and rural environment. A major program of institutional strengthening to support sector reform, and the decentralization and improvement of the operation for better service to all citizens. To all this, we must add a program of response and prevention to cholera, of which, among other things, the construction of the excreta treatment plant of Titanyen, which will be put into operation in April 2012.