Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa

Water can be contaminated in storage containers

Improper disposal of waste degrades the environment, including water bodies

Renewable water resources per capita

2016

Absolute scarcity

Tunisia

2 500

Morocco

Scarcity

1 700

Algeria

No water stress 500 1 000 Vulnerable Stress

Libya

Egypt

Mauritania

Mali

Niger

Chad

Sudan

Eritrea

Senegal

No data available

Cabo Verde

Burkina Faso

Guinea

Gambia

Djibouti

Benin

Guinea Bissau

Ghana

South Sudan

Central African Republic

Ethiopia

Nigeria

Sierra Leone

Togo

Cameroon

Côte d’Ivoire

Liberia

Uganda

Somalia

São Tomé e Príncipe

Gabon

Kenya

Burundi Rwanda

Equatorial Guinea

Seychelles

DR Congo

Tanzania

Congo

Malawi

m 3 /inhabitant/year

Mozambique

Angola

160 000

Zambia

Mauritius

Zimbabwe

80 000 50 000 15 000 5 000 100

Botswana

Madagascar

Namibia

eSwatini

Lesotho

South Africa

GRID-Arendal/Studio Atlantis 1 000 km

Sources: FAO Aquastat, 2016.

Figure 1.8 . Africa’s total renewable water resources

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