- Improve water quality and waste management, reduce water-related diseases and deaths
- Ensure universal access to water (in rural areas),
- Provide public water, sanitation and hygiene facilities (schools, health facilities, etc.),
- Ensure sustainable agricultural practices, including water productivity and efficiency, reduction of diffuse pollution and reduction of food losses
- Increasing water efficiency and sustainable management through science, technology, innovation and education
Water quality and climate change
Whitewater Senegal
Gov/Local Authority
NGO
other
The State of Senegal and its partners have made significant investment efforts in the rural hydraulics sector in recent decades. These investments have made it possible to carry out hundreds of highly productive boreholes in the groundnut basin, generally more than 300 m away, the Maestrichtian aquifer, whose water is sometimes brackish and/or contains a high fluorine content. Salt contents exceeding 3g per litre of water are frequently observed.
Nearly a third of the boreholes in the groundnut basin have very high levels of fluoride. Fluoridated water looks good for its consumers when it is not salty because it has no taste but its harmful effects are only seen in the long term. The very serious effects on health, are not limited to a red coloring of the teeth of consumers but beyond 3mg / liter, very painful sketal deformities are observed.
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Ndiamé Gueye
Phone : 777048480
E-mail : ndiame.dieng@yahoo.fr
