Hungarian-built world-class wastewater treatment plants in Africa inaugurated

Two sewage treatment plants designed and built by a Hungarian consortium have been inaugurated in Ghana, Africa, Tristan Azbej, state secretary for helping persecuted Christians and implementing the Hungary Helps programme, said on Wednesday.

The plants inaugurated in the cities of Takoradi and Tamale were designed and built by Hungary’s Pureco-Unit Consortium together with its Ghanian partners, Azbej told MTI by phone. With Pureco having already built a water treatment facility in Kumasi, the three plants will ensure the sewage treatment of Ghana’s three biggest cities after the capital, he added.

Azbej called the investment of HUF 3.8 billion (EUR 10 million) per plant the Hungarian water industry’s biggest success story in Africa.

The plants were not built as part of an aid programme, but as a market-based project, with Hungary’s Eximbank financing a EUR 10 million loan per plant, Azbej said.

In addition to its aim to promote trade ties with Ghana, the Hungarian government wants the Ghanian people to maintain the country’s stability so that they can make a living in their homeland rather than choosing migration to Europe, he said.