Multinational - Studies on Tariffs for Water Withdrawals from the Senegal River and the Rehabilitation of the Hydraulic Network of the Senegal River Basin

The conduct of the two studies will enable OMVS and the member countries to lay the sustainable foundations of a strategy for the maintenance and upkeep of the infrastructure downstream from Diama and the waterways dependent on the Senegal River. These two studies will provide the country with tariff and planning instruments capable of ensuring the promotion of social and economic activities related to the development of the Senegal River. The Tariff Study will be conducted in two phases over an 8-month period and will comprise a number of key activities including the calculation of the cost price of water and an analysis of the maintenance function of SOGED. It will prepare in detail a reliable tariff and recovery system, easy to implement. The new tariff system stemming from the study must aim to achieve a much greater contribution of all the economic operators benefiting from the impact of the regulation of the river. The rehabilitation study will also be conducted in two phases, but over an 11-month period. It is in keeping with a preparatory phase, which will make it possible to carry out a complete inventory, to be used as a vital frame of reference for the entire integrated control programme, and which will lead to the definition of a number of concrete priority operations to be carried out which can be integrated in a cohesive, Senegal River-wide strategy. The total cost of the two studies is estimated at CFA.F 739 million, i.e. UA 0.81 million.