Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa

Using MDG 7.C to benchmark progress towards achieving SDG 6

2010

2015

2000

2005

Indicator

Goal

Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services (%)

Drinking water

4.4

4.4

Proportion of population practising open defecation (%)

4.4 (2007)

Sanitation and hygiene

Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (%)

Proportion of population with basic handwashing facilities on premises (%)

22.7

22.7

22.6 (2007)

Proportion of safely treated domestic wastewater flows (%)

Wastewater treatment

Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality (%)

Proportion of groundwater bodies with good ambient water quality (%)

Water-use efficiency (US$/cm 3 )

Water-use efficiency

337.8

Water stress

Freshwater withdrawals as a proportion of available freshwater resources (%)

0.09

24.0 (2017)

Degree of integrated water resources management (IWRM) implementation (%)

Water resources management

Population growth (thousands) Population growth Thousands Equatorial Guinea

Source: UNSD 2019.

Institutional and legal framework

1 637

Response

Basic elements

1 169

Institutional framework

256 352 497 750

• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, responsible for studies of drinking water supply in rural areas • Ministry of Infrastructure and Forests

Presence of an enabling institutional framework for sustainable water, wastewater and sanitation development and services

projections

1975 Source: UN-Desa 2019.

1985 1995 2005 2015 2025

Legal, policy and strategy frameworks

Wastewater management

Current enabling policies

Recent data on wastewater management are lacking.

• Decree No. 9/1991 of 17 December 1991, which led to the adoption of the national report on environment and development • Law No. 3/2007 on water and coasts in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea

Current enabling laws

Water and sanitation provision

Equatorial Guinea

Access to at least basic services

Sources: FAO 2016; World Bank 2018b; World Bank 2018c.

Percentage of population

Progress towards MDG target

Met target

Limited or no progress

No data available for 1990

Moderate progress Good progress

Inadequate data

2015

Drinking water

Limited or no progress

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

0

National Rural Urban National Rural Urban

Sanitation

Limited or no progress

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

Source: WHO and UNICEF 2015.

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