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EU lends US $27.9 million for water project

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    The European Union has agreed to lend Burkina Faso 30 million euros (about US $27.9 million) for a drinking water project, the Ministry of Finance in Ouagadougou announced on Friday. The Ziga Dam project, 35 km north of Ouagadougou, is expected to supply all the water the capital needs by the year 2010, the communiqué said. The total project costs about 202 million euros ($188 million). The EU loan will be used to build reservoirs, wells, water stations and a communications system for the water distribution network.

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