Water Points
Illustrative for the flawed implementation of the project’s mitigation plans are the numerous water points that were built in compensation for destroyed natural springs, but have never produced clean drinking water. COTCO representatives reluctantly agreed to refurbish these wells, but it took more than two years to get the repairs even started.
A study by two environmental engineers reveals that most of the revamped water points are now either abandoned or show serious problems.
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Since 2004 RELUFA has been following the complaints by the population of Ndtoua, a rural village in the tropical rain forests of Southern Cameroon that had served as one of the bases for the Pipeline's construiction works. COTCO had not kept its commitment to replace the village's natural spring with a water point. As a result the population is worse off, having to choose between the contaminated water from an unfinished, abandoned well and that of their neglected natural spring.
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