The High Commissioner of the Léraba province, president of the Noula Local Water Committee, Mahamadi Congo, launched on Thursday September 7, 2023, the extraction activities of invasive plants in the plan of Golona water in the Douna department, rural commune located 7 km from Sindou.

In the implementation of the integrated water resources management project entitled Water, CLE of Sustainable Development (ECDD), the CLE Noula with the support of the Cascades Water Agency (AEC) and financial support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) has planned actions to perpetuate water bodies in the province of Léraba.

“It is in the same framework with the financial support of the State and the financial contribution in terms of water (taxes recovered from companies exploiting water resources), that the Cascades Water Agency through the CLE Noula, organized the extraction of invasive plants in the water body of the village of Golona, department of Douna, launched on Thursday September 7, 2023,” said the head of the Water Agency, Mouniratou Ouédraogo.

With the objective of significantly reducing the quantity of invasive plants in the Golona water body, CLE NOULA plans to free at least ten (10) hectares of the water body from invasive plants and then use them to produce organic manure at profit of the operators of the place.

It must be said that today's activity saw the participation of the presidents of special delegations from Sindou and Douna, the principal director of the environment of the Léraba as well as the local populations in all.

The High Commissioner of the province of Léraba, president of CLE Noula, Mahamadi Congo, after having appreciated this mobilization of the host populations, launched an appeal for everyone to mitigate the degradation of water

Source: Burkina Information Agency