BY JOACKIM KULE
The Ministry of Water and Environment, through Rural Water Supply and Sanitation is implementing a project of constructing two water gravity flow systems in Maliba sub county, Busongora County North in Kasese district.
The two systems including Isule-Katebe-Nyangorongo and Bikone are aimed at increasing safe water coverage in the Sub- County with less than 50% access to safe water by the communities.
The two projects are being funded by the Export -Import Bank of the India and the Government of Uganda at a tune of shillings 9 billion as part of a broader effort targeting 20 districts.
Addressing a stakeholders’ meeting at Isule Health Centre III shortly after the site inspection of the works, the Projects’ Manager, Eng. David Bategnaye from the Ministry of Water and Environment noted that they were intending to serve water to the communities in 14 villages that comprise the parishes of Bikone and Isule.
Eng. Bateganye told the meeting that the water projects had been designed to produce more than 250 million litres of water to the population on a daily basis.
The Kasese District Water Engineer, Mr. Patrick Syaipuma Ndungu revealed that government was still implementing many more water projects in the sub-counties across the district in a bid to increase water coverage that had drastically reduced due to some human activities and natural disasters.
He was happy that in the two years to come, government will have injected more than shillings 200 billion to cover other water stressed areas including Mbunga Sub County which is currently in the pipeline.
Kasese District Chairperson, Mr. Eliphazi Muhindi Bukombi appealed to the contractors to embrace giving back to the communities through rehabilitating some of the infrastructures like impassable roads that affect the development of the people.
The Maliba Sub -county Chairperson, Mr. Robert Mubunga Kiryamuthaka, appealed to the government to devise other means of fixing the remaining parishes into such projects so that all the people are served.
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