Cameroon: CUD Steps Up Measures to Prevent Floods

Posted to the web 27 June 2008 Effa Tambenkongho The Douala City Council, CUD, is stepping up measures to prevent floods in Douala, a flood prone city. In the past, during the rainy season, occur especially during the period of heavy rains, that is from June to September. This is because there were no drainage where water could pass when it has reached saturation point and cannot sink to the ground anymore. Last year, the City Council developed a strategy to fight against the floods. Drainage passages were created; existing ones which were blocked by household wastes, since they were used as ditches were unblocked. Some houses built on water path or which blocked the drainage path were destroyed. The heavy rains that poured did not cause floods as they did in the past. Added to the drainage ways which were created, the City... [read full story]