Angola

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Angola is part of:
Africa · Middle Africa ·
Water Basins of Angola:
Chiloango · Congo-Zaire · Cuvelia-Etosha · Kunene · Okavango · Zambezi ·

Facts & Figures

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Capital

Luanda

Neighbouring Countries

Congo, Namibia, Zambia,

Total Area

1,246,700 km²

- Water

0 km² (0.00%) / 0 m²/ha

- Land

1,246,700 km²

Coastline

1,600 km

Population

15,941,390 (12.8 inhab./km²)

HDI^A

0.484 (2007)

Gini Coefficient^A

n/a (1995)

Nominal GDP^B

$95,950 million

GDP (PPP) Per Capita^B

$9,100

National UN Presence

Land Use^C

- Cultivated Land

35,905 km² (2.88%)

- Arable

33,038 km² (2.65%)

- Permanent Crops

2,867 km² (0.23%)

- Irrigated

800 km²

- Non cultivated

342 km² (97.12%)

Average Annual Rainfall^D

1010 mm

Renewable Water Resources^E

184 km³

Water Withdrawals^F	0.35 km³/yr
- For Agricultural Use	60%
- For Domestic Use	23%
- For Industrial Use	17%
- Per Capita	25 m³

Population with safe access to
- Improved Water Source	53%
- Urban population	75%
- Rural population	40%
- Improved Sanitation	31%
- Urban population	56%
- Rural population	16%

References & Remarks

^A UNDP Human Development Report

^B CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia

^C CIA World Factbook Country Profiles

^D Aquastat - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture

^E CIA World Factbook

^F Earthtrends

1 News
2 Country Profile: Climate, Geography, Socio-Economic Context
3 Country Profile: Water Bodies and Resources
4 Country Profile: Legal and Institutional Environment
5 Country Profile: Water Sector Coordination
6 Country Profile: Trends in Water Use, Management and Sanitation
7 Country Profile: Challenges and Opportunities
8 Articles
9 Projects and Case Studies
10 Publications
11 Who is Who
12 References
13 See also
14 External Resources
15 Attachments

News

Country Profile: Climate, Geography, Socio-Economic Context

Angola has the highest rate of diarrheal disease in the world with 114 years of life lost to diarrheal diseases for every 1,000 Angolans. Contaminated water, inadequate storm water drainage, and lack of even minimal sanitation facilities have resulted in high, and steadily increasing, rates of water and excreta-related diseases. Angola’s water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector has until recently remained the least developed in Africa due to four decades of persistent civil conflict. For example, some of the worst sanitation in Angola can be found in its capital, Luanda, as well as in the hillside refugee camps surounding the city where more than a million internally displaced persons still reside.

The sprawling growth of peri-urban populations continues to put stress on already feeble WSS infrastructure, which is probably not captured by statistics on urban and rural access to improved water sources or sanitation. Although Angola is on track to meet MDG targets for water supply, it is unlikely to meet targets in the rural sanitation sub-sector by 2015. Nevertheless, the Angolan government has committed to implementing an aggressive capital investment program to expand and rehabilitate WSS infrastructure as well as implement much needed institutional reforms.

Country Profile: Water Bodies and Resources

Country Profile: Legal and Institutional Environment

Significant WSS sector transformations began with the passage of Angola’s General Water Law in 2002 and the formation of the 2003 Water Sector Development Strategy. The Water Strategy and Law called for decentralization of WSS service delivery to autonomous provincial water and sanitation utilities (PWSUs), especially in peri-urban and rural areas.. While the streamlining of institutional reforms has fostered momentum in WSS sector development, constraints on further reforms and sustainability are due to the lack of financial, managerial, and technical capacity in the sector.

The institutional framework for WSS is undergoing significant change. Currently, the Ministry of Energy and Water (MINEA ) and Ministry of Finance (MINFIN) share responsibility of regulating WSS services, including the establishment of tariffs. MINEA handles sector planning through the National Water Directorate (DNA). A component of the new reforms calls for the creation of a regulatory agency to develop and enforce PWSU delivery standards and establishment of public enterprises for WSS service provision