Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa

Water use, 2016 Algeria Percentage Water use, 2002 Congo Percentage

Congo

Water resources Congo is a well-watered country with an annual rainfall of 1,646 mm (AMCOW 2018). The country has three basic climatic regions: equatorial in the north, humid and tropical in the south-west and subequatorial in the plateau and bowl regions (FAO 2016). Water availability is about 10.8 m 3 /year per person with usage highest in the industrial sector (AMCOW 2018). Despite having extensive arable land, only 37.2 per cent of the population is employed in the agriculture sector, which contributed just 6.4 per cent to GDP in 2017 (World Bank 2018). This probably contributes to the low level of water usage in this sector. The country’s aqueduct water stress for all sectors measured in 2010 was 0.00 and is projected to remain the same by 2040 (Luo et al. 2015). This indicates that there is low competition among water users relative to available surface-water resources.

Agriculture

9

22

Industry

Industry 6

69

Municipal

Municipal

Agriculture

31

63

Source: FAO-Aquastat 2019.

Source: AMCOW 2018. Water availability Congo Water availability Congo

m 3 /person and year m 3 /person and year

Total renewable freshwater Total water withdrawal Internal renewable water sources of which are surface water Total renewable freshwater Total water withdrawal Internal renewable water sources of which are surface water

5 410 89.3 1 060 354 8% 751 7.65% 1.70% 5 410 89.3 1 060 354 8% 751 7.65% 1.70%

pressure on surface water pressure on surface water

of which are groundwater of which are groundwater

pressure on groundwater pressure on groundwater

Water stress Water stress

Brazaville

Source: AMCOW 2018; FAO 2018. Source: AMCOW 2018; FAO 2018.

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