Turkey to help provide clean water to 3 million Africans

Ankara, (IINA) - Turkey announced on Wednesday that it is expanding its efforts to help provide usable, clean water to some 3 million people suffering from water shortages in African countries, Anadolu Agency reported.
"We are planning to give a helping hand to nine [more] African countries with our experience and knowledge", said Turkish Minister of Forestry and Water Affairs Veysel Eroglu.
The ministry's projects include helping with digging wells, monitoring and managing water quality, water and wastewater purification technologies, irrigation, dam construction, and protecting, upgrading, and managing water resources.
"We’ve set our goal in this framework. We have provided eight African countries with water so far. And now we’re starting to supply water to nine other African countries", said Eroglu.
The ministry currently helps provide 1.7 million people in Africa with water, he said, and as of 2019, this number would rise to 3 million.
The nations included in the latest initiative are Chad, Togo, Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, and Kenya. The countries that benefited earleir were Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger, Mali, and Djibouti.
In addition, many Africans who need water resources are benefitting from Turkish humanitarian aid projects through the State Waterworks Directorate, Prime Ministry Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Those groups have helped digging 2,600 wells for people living in harsh conditions in many African countries, providing almost 9 million people with fresh drinking water.
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