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I'm doing my first mission in tuberculosis centers in Tillabery region and the last week end I stayed in Tabotakit a little village in sahelian region near Mali border.
The more than 65 million people in the nine Sahelian countries (Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal) are among the poorest and least food secure in the world. The region is marked by high rates of deforestation, soil degradation, erosion and population growth, as well as by weak political and private sector institutions.
In Niger, like in all Sahelian countries, access to potable water has always been a great worry for the people and for their leaders. This explains the considerable effort that has been made during the last two decades. Since 1980, close to 230 million euros have been spent on rural hydraulic works to build up 17,000 water points. This being the case, the success of the policy being implemented by the Niger authorities requires support for the emergence of a local private sector, on the one hand, and a "creditworthy" demand (i.e. a capacity of the local population to pay for and ensure sustainability of water services) for water from the local communities on the other.

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