The Comoros: Moroni residents struggle amid water shortages
Abdillah Mze Al, Technical Director of the water company "SONEDE", says, "There are short-term solutions put in place by the new company director, so it’s trying to unplug the systems that supply the sectors of Moroni and outside of Moroni; we’re going to untangle them, so to try to supply the population, as well as medium-term projects, as I told you, it’s an average of 4 years, so he will install new infrastructure that will be up to par with the population of the capital and its surroundings.
Bakri El Yahya, representative of the Progeau programme, which works with the government to improve access to water, says, "The pumping station is a bit outdated; it was created in the late seventies, with funding from the European Union, and then after that, from the seventies to today, the population increased, people's habits also changed.
Fellow Moroni resident Ben does not bother turning off his taps at home, since authorities only provide water roughly every three weeks.
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