Water for Landscape

"Landscapes are essential to the quality of life in every Country"
"Landscape design, installation, and maintenance can and should be water efficient" The importance for landscaping are for recreation, fire protection, erosion control, energy conversion, enhancing environmental conditions and replacing ecosystems in areas of development. However, Cameroon faces a real challenge to meet the water needs of a growing population with a limited supply of water. To meet this challenge, water use in landscapes must become more efficient. There are many ways to accomplish this goal and even modest improvements can have a cumulative effect in saving a great deal of water.

THE EPILEPTIC NATURE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY IN CAMEROON DUE REDUCTION IN THE VOLUME OF THE SANAGA RIVER

Electricity Transmission in Cameroon

The Sanaga River is the largest river in Cameroon and its basin covers almost a fourth of the country. It flows for 918 km from its source on the Adamawa Plateau to the mouth at the Atlantic Ocean near Douala and covers a drainage basin of about 140,000 km². The average flow of the river is 2072 m³/sec with a minimum flow of 473 M³/Sec in March and a maximum from August to November of 5700 m³/sec. The river flows through 6 of the 10 regions of Cameroon: Adamawa, North-West, West, East, Central and Littoral Regions. Two hydropower plants have been installed on the Sanaga which produce some 95% of all electricity consumed in Cameroon. Three dams have been constructed on the river to create reservoirs in the headwaters providing sufficient flow in the dry season to allow power production.

However, due to climate change with increase in the length of the dry seasons and changes in the rainfall patterns, the volume of the Sanaga River has reduced below the average and it is constantly reducing. This has caused a reduction in the amount of electrical energy generated by the various dams which has led to constant breaks in electrical energy supply in most quarter of Yaounde, including the other regions of Cameroon.

Consequently, several small and medium size enterprises are facing economic loses because workers output stands at zero and in effect, very low productivity. Households and businessmen face technical problems like the damage of appliances due to power fluctuations.

Food poisoning is most common as cold stores and other business centres who sell perishable food face economic loses and as a result, they sell off defrosted foodstuffs to families and other food vendors at a comparatively low rate. This food becomes dangerous when consumed and pose a huge threat to Food Security in Cameroon.

 

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