Drinking water and sanitation
Supply networks, reservoirs, wastewater networks, pumping stations.
Water and sanitation engineer, Dakar
Building, treating, preserving.
I run Waterleaf, the hydraulic engineering, sanitation and public works company I founded in Dakar in 2017.
2017 Waterleaf founded in Dakar
3 trades: water and sanitation, effluents, public works
15 days to produce and assemble a Classou Dibor classroom
THC07 ECOWAS water and sanitation committee
01Career
Career
An engineer trained in Montpellier, with a spell in Paris sanitation, I founded Waterleaf in Dakar in 2017.
- 01 Montpellier
Graduate engineer, École polytechnique d’ingénierie de Montpellier.
- 02 Paris
At SIAAP, I helped write a self-monitoring manual.
- 03 2017
Mandela Washington Fellow.
- 04 Dakar, 2017
I founded Waterleaf, which I have run ever since.
- 05 Today
Within ECOWAS committee THC07 and the Senegalese Standards Association’s technical committee, I work on water and sanitation standards.
02The company
Waterleaf
Waterleaf designs, builds and maintains water and sanitation infrastructure for public and private clients.
Effluent treatment
Compact containerised units for industry and construction camps.
Public works
Roads, rural tracks, crossing structures, buildings.
SOKKEL
Classou Dibor
A prefabricated classroom, produced and assembled in Senegal in fifteen days by SOKKEL, a Waterleaf subsidiary, with Lamtoro Architecture.
Discover Waterleaf →03Kigali, August 2026
What I stand for
In the end, it is African companies that carry out the works. The question is why they are not allowed to win them.
Translated from my interview with Les Africaines, 27 August 2026 Read my positions →
05Contact
Contact
For a collaboration or an interview, write to me at Waterleaf.
contact@waterleaf.inc Waterleaf SAS Sicap Amitié 3, villa no. 4439, opposite the VDN, Dakar, Senegal +221 33 864 11 50 Back to the surface