Mauritania, United States Sign Agreement in Field of Water

An agreement on the supply to Mauritania of important data on water resources in the wilayas of the north of the country was signed on 11 February in Nouakchott by Mr. Mohamed El Hacen Ould Boukhreiss, the Minister of Water and Sanitation, and HE Mrs. Kynthia Kiersch the Ambassador of the United States of America. Today’s agreement, worth 9.5 million dollars, will make it possible to deploy remote sensing tools to define the zones where aquifers could be found, to carry out a hydrogeological assessment of the wilayas of Tiris-Zemmour, Adrar, and Tagant, and to carry out an economic study of the development and sustainable use of groundwater. It will also formulate recommendations on the monitoring of the groundwater network within the framework of decision-making based on scientific data to the sustainability of the resource in addition to capacity building and technology transfer.