Plaquette : Making the Senegal river navigable - IAGF 6ème session

4 The OMVS has worked on this navigation project ever since it was founded, carrying out many technical, environmental, economic and financial studies. It has now become one of the priority objectives of its agenda and the OMVS hopes to quick ly start the first phase of its project to create a continuous and lasting navigab le waterway of 905 km, between Saint-Louis (Senegal), at the estuary on the Atlantic coast, and Ambidedi (Mali) . By hosting the IFGR Committee on the African continent for the first time, the OMVS wanted to place its programme in perspective. It w ished to gain from the experiences of other river management bodies around the world and their varied competences to ensure the full economic , environmental and societal success of its project and make it the driving force for developing the territories crossed by the river. An important exchange of views, as Senegal is preparing to host the World Water Forum in 2021 . At a time when the effects of climatic change and pressure on water resources are increasing, 1consider this multidimensional approach to be particularly relevant. 1ask you to help us better understand the relations between the dimensions of the problem and provide the pertinent answers. MANSOUR FAYE, M INISTER OF HYDRAULICS AND MAYOR OF SAINT-LOUIS