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Sputnik — Niger Decides to Nationalize Its Water Sector, Terminates Contract With French Company

en.sputniknews.africa Niger Decides to Nationalize Its Water Sector, Terminates Contract With French Company

The French Veolia Group, through its subsidiary Société d'Exploitation des Eaux du Niger, has been providing access to drinking water for the majority of the population of this West African country for more than 22 years.

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Hell yeah

More removal of the French: https://hexbear.net/post/1548918?scrollToComments=false
Burkina Faso Considers New Constitution Without French Influence, Prime Minister Says
On December 31, the revision of the 1991 Constitution has been endorsed by the Burkinabe parliamentarians. The approved amendments aim to diminish the importance of the French language and enhance the responsibilities of the Constitutional...

Society for the exploitation of the waters of the Niger

Really on the nose there France
- That's not a correct translation, exploitation in Spanish and French is regularly used for agricultural activities, in English it should be replaced with something like extraction in this case I guess?
  The original meaning of the word is to make use of something, and I guess the English meaning, which also exists in Spanish and French, came from the way the people made use of were treated, as if they were raw materials instead of well, people. In any case, in this name it clearly refers to the activity of extracting water, it's a normal word.

That French company doesn’t try to sugarcoat things, either. They’ve got “exploitation” right in the name lol!
- In French and in Spanish that's a word that is used for an activity that works with raw materials, besides the typical English meaning.
  "explotación ganadera" is a place where there's activity with animals, probably a farm.
  You might have been making a joke, then the joke's on me, but better to be sure.
  The company's name could be translated to: The corporation of Niger's water extraction.
  
  Yeah, I figured it probably had a different connotation in French, but it still made me chuckle. I didn’t know the exact meaning that you explained, though, so I appreciate it!
- This shit reads like satire. It's a clown world we live in.

Only 56% of the population has access to a drinking water source.
I don't get it... how do the rest survive?
- Containers alone. Or a mixture of containers for important things & low quality sources if available
  
  Yes but they must fill their containers at a drinking water source...
  Maybe it's a language thing I'm not understanding.

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