Edouard Guito the Director General of the National Directorate of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DINEPA) accompanied by Pierre Bernadin Poisson, the Director of the Regional Office of Drinking Water and Sanitation North (OREPA-Nord) and Senator Kedler Augustin, made a 4-day tour of the Northwest that ended Saturday.

The various visits and meetings in the department among others in Port-de-Paix, Saint-Louis North and the island of La Tortue, in addition to facilitating discussions around the issue of drinking water in the areas concerned, were the occasion to announce several projects planned by DINEPA for the North-West Department, projects that will be financed by the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).

At the same time, Guito Edouard took advantage of this tour to officially launch the "Feasibility Study of the Drinking Water Supply System of Saint-Louis du Nord", financed by the World Bank.

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