Exploitation des systèmes d’eau potable

Ensuring drinking water infrastructure works for the long term

Operating the drinking water systems is one of the essential missions OMILAYE carries out as manager of the rural public drinking water service.

This mission involves keeping the infrastructure for producing, transmitting, storing and distributing drinking water in good working order, so as to guarantee rural populations a service that is reliable, continuous and compliant with quality requirements.

By running the drinking water supply systems day to day, OMILAYE works to turn hydraulic infrastructure into a service that is tangible, accessible and useful to households, schools, health centres, local economic activity and the communities it serves.

Operational management in the service of communities

Operating a drinking water system means maintaining a permanent presence in the field, monitoring installations, tracking the volumes produced and distributed, checking equipment, organising technical interventions and maintaining continuity of service.

OMILAYE mobilises its operational teams to guarantee regular monitoring of facilities, the availability of water, network performance and the rapid handling of any malfunction that could affect the service.

This local management approach delivers better responsiveness, prevents prolonged interruptions and progressively improves the quality of service provided to users.

Infrastructure monitored with rigour

The drinking water systems operated by OMILAYE include abstraction works, pumping equipment, treatment units, reservoirs, distribution networks, connections and service points.

Monitoring this infrastructure rests on a structured technical organisation covering the supervision of facilities, equipment maintenance, checks on the condition of networks, the identification of anomalies and the planning of any necessary interventions.

This operational rigour aims to preserve the durability of the water assets and guarantee responsible operation of the systems entrusted to OMILAYE.

Continuity of service and network performance

Continuity of service is at the heart of operating the drinking water systems.

OMILAYE works to ensure water is available in the localities served, while improving network performance and reducing losses.

This involves regular monitoring of operating indicators, analysis of consumption, supervision of sensitive facilities and constant coordination between technical, commercial and operational teams.

The aim is to guarantee a service that is more reliable, more efficient and better suited to the needs of rural populations.

Water quality and service safety

Operating the drinking water systems also carries a strong requirement on water quality.

OMILAYE ensures that the water distributed to the population is appropriately monitored, in line with the requirements applicable to the public drinking water service.

The teams concerned take part in controlling, supervising and safeguarding the service, in order to protect users' health and strengthen communities' confidence in the water they receive.

Teams mobilised in the field

Operating the drinking water systems rests on the daily commitment of several roles: zone managers, technical teams, network technicians, electromechanical technicians, standpipe attendants, zone officers, customer service officers and other staff involved in the service chain.

Each of them contributes, at their own level, to keeping installations running, following up customers, feeding back information, resolving incidents and continuously improving the service.

This collective effort allows OMILAYE to run operations locally, on the basis of skill, responsiveness and a sense of public service.

Operations geared towards sustainability

Beyond the day-to-day running of facilities, operating the drinking water systems is framed around sustainability.

OMILAYE works to preserve infrastructure, optimise the use of resources, strengthen preventive maintenance, improve operational performance and respond to changing community needs.

This approach consolidates the service over time and contributes to universal access to drinking water in rural areas, in line with national ambitions and Sustainable Development Goal 6.

Our commitment

Through its operation of the drinking water systems, OMILAYE reaffirms its commitment to delivering a public service that is reliable, sustainable and close to rural populations.

The company works every day to keep infrastructure running properly, improve continuity of service, safeguard water quality and support communities towards safer and more sustainable access to drinking water.

OMILAYE — Water is life.