The $2 billion Room to Run guarantee, which the United Kingdom announced at COP26, has unlocked funding for two new climate-resilient water infrastructure projects in Egypt and Senegal, announced Andrew Mitchell, the U.K. Minister of State for International Development, at the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) annual meetings in Egypt.
The project in Egypt, worth almost £70 million ($87 million), will expand the capacity of a water treatment plant, so it can provide clean recycled water to serve 70,000 acres of new arable land, benefiting 5 million more people than at present.
In Senegal, more than £16 million ($20 million) in funding will support a project to improve access to clean water and sanitation services to 1.45 million people through the creation of more than 13,000 new latrines, five surface water treatment plants and a 70-kilometer (43-mile) sewage network, which will serve more than 250,000 households.
The Room to Run Guarantee is a $2 billion g
