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

Proportion of population practising open defecation (%)

Sanitation and hygiene

19.2

15.3

27.4

23.3

Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (%)

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

8.7

8.8

8.6 (2006)

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

5.3

Water stress

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

0.04

24.0 (2017)

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

Water resources management

Population growth Thousands Guinea

Source: UNSD 2019.

Population growth (thousands)

Institutional and legal framework

15 004

Response

Basic elements

4 491 5 471 7 270 9 110 11 432

Institutional framework

• Ministry of Environment, Water and Forestry • National Water Commission of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment • National Directorate of Hydraulics • Société Nationale des Eaux de Guinée [Guinea National Water Company] (SONEG) • Société d’Exploitation des Eaux de Guinée [Guinea Water Supply Company] (SEEG)

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

• Law No. 0032/2017 / AN of 4 July 2017 on Public-Private Partnerships

Environment for private sector participation

Wastewater management

• Order No. A/2013/172/MEE/CAB/SGG of 12 February 2013 on the pricing of drinking water supply in rural and semi-urban areas

Water pricing facility

Recent data on wastewater management are lacking.

Legal, policy and strategy frameworks

Water and sanitation provision

• Draft National Water Policy 2018

Current enabling policies

Guinea

Access to at least basic services

Percentage of population

Progress towards MDG target

• Law No. L/94/005/CTRN on the Water Code, 1994 • Public Health Code, promulgated in 1997

Current enabling laws

Met target

Limited or no progress

Moderate progress Good progress

2015 1990

Inadequate data

• Order No. A/2013/173/MEE/CAB/SGG of 12 February 2013 on the procedures for establishing protection zones for water catchments intended for human consumption and for sanitation works in rural and semi-urban areas • Decree No. D/No.121/PRG/CNDD/SGPRG/2010 of 17 June 2010 amending the statutes of the National Water Point Management Service

Drinking water

Met target

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

0

National Rural Urban National Rural Urban

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

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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