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THE CARRIBEAN
The News N° 24 - March 2014
FRom one conTinenT To anoTHeR
4 years after the earthquake that devastated
the island, Haiti is still undergoing reconstruc-
tion.
The ”Lyonnaise des Eaux-Haiti”,
a subsi-
diary of the SUEZ ENVIRONMENT Group, is
involved in this reconstruction by accompa-
nying the teams of
the Technical Opera-
tion Center of the Metropolitan Region
of Port-au-Prince (CTE RMBP)
to rebuild
the drinking water supply systems.
In such a context, the "Lyonnaise des Eaux-
Haiti" called
IOWater
for training the staff of
the Operation and Research Departments.
IOWater
’s good knowledge of the Haitian si-
tuation allowed developing educational
tools, dedicated to training in hydraulics and
construction techniques, particularly suitable
for the staffs of this country. Thus, a hydraulic
model was designed and built on the pre-
mises of the “CTE RMPP”. A group of students
was especially trained to use and manage
this tool.
They will be assigned to train local operators
on the principles of hydraulic calculations and
management of a water system.
The “CTE RMPP” teams, accompanied by ex-
perts of the "Lyonnaise des Eaux Haiti", will
regularly use both this installation and ad-hoc
training materials, that have been designed
and delivered by
IOWater
as part of these
missions.
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A technical and regulatory reference frame
to support the development of the water sector
The Republic of Haiti is facing many difficul-
ties that originate from the diversity of the
projects being developed.
The drinking water supply and sanitation sys-
tems are often made of heterogeneous mate-
rials and equipment which make them diffi-
cult to maintain or operate...
The National Directorate of Drinking
Water Supply and Sanitation in Haiti
(DINEPA)
was created by the Water Act of
2009 to especially harmonize practices and
projects implemented by its many partners in
the country, whether national, international,
public, private, NGO, etc.
On 22 October 2013,
IOWater
submitted to
DINEPA, in the presence of the highest natio-
nal Authorities,
the National Technical
Reference Frame for drinking water
supply and sanitation in Haiti,
after two
years of work funded by
UNICEF.
This technical and regulatory reference frame
gathers more than 110 documents for appro-
ximately 3,000 pages, detailing best prac-
tices, minimum requirements or prohibitions
for each type of structure, material, or pro-
cess. All sectors are covered: from toilets for
private homes to the building of metallic drin-
king water tanks, through the management
of water kiosks, the building of systems,
management or security rules.
This set of requirements will apply to future
projects and support sectoral capacity buil-
ding and increase technical knowledge.
All documents are drafted so as to be comple-
tely adapted to the current and projected
capacities of Haiti and involve the mobiliza-
tion of many sectoral stakeholders for valida-
tion through an effective collaborative pro-
cess.
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Visits of sites in Haiti
Practical work
on a hydraulic model
•
The technical frame
of references
Workshop for editing the frame
of references with key stakeholders
Haiti
Capacity building in a country under reconstruction
Assistance
to ”Phareview”
For “Phareview”, Haitian private company
bottling spring water,
IOWater
looked for
service providers and took care of their
supervision for
carrying out an impact
assessment and an eco-systemic
study of the water intakes and future
bottling plant.
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