Conference at the NASPW’s amphitheater 100 on the theme: "Water crisis in Cameroon"

Students from the Environmental Engineering club of the National Advanced School of Public Works (NASPW) have organized a conference at the NASPW’s amphitheater 100 on the theme: "Water crisis in Cameroon". A meeting marked by the participation of the presidents of the different clubs: Civil Engineering, Topography and Surveying, Town Planning, Architecture, and the President of the Girls Association of the NASPW
  

Difficulties

• Lack of technical and national water management policy;
• Lack of physical water in arid areas such as in the Far North due to the severe dry seasons and floods that are the consequences of climate changes;
• Consequences: cholera, famine, low birth rate, and dental diseases due to the abnormal presence of fluoride in the water;
• Archaic construction of water wells;
• Absence of the water culture.

  
Recommendations

• Students of the NASPW as engineers, designers, innovators, are challenged by these technical problems;
• The government should set up a national drinking water distribution network made of communal drinking water distribution networks. For the right to drinking water has become a fundamental right recognized by the United Nations;
• Everyone must take his responsibilities as technicians, consumers or the government;
• Sensitize the populations is essential to avoid the damages due to the ignorance of the citizens.

  
The panelists

From the left to the right

• Dr. MBA Alphonse (Deputy Director of the NASPW)
• Pr. NKENG George ELAMBO (Director of the NASPW)
• Pr. ESOH ELAME (University of Padua in Italy)
• Dr. Jacques MARTEL (Teacher at the NASPW)
• Dr. TALLA André (Head of the Rural Engineering Department)
• Dr. FANTONG Wilson (Lecturer at the NASPW)
• KWALI Denise (President of the Environmental Engineering club)