 In 1964 the government of François Duvalier created CAMEP, the "Centrale Autonome Métropolitaine d'Eau Potable", responsible for the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.Subsequently, in 1977 the government of his son Jean-Claude Duvalier created SNEP ("Service National d'Eau Potable") to be in charge of water supply in the rest of the country.Shortly afterwards a rural water and hygiene unit called POCHEP after its French acronym was created in the Ministry of Health, since SNEP was focusing on secondary towns and did not have the ability to serve rural areas.