WB provides over 405m/- for Mvumi Makulu water project

BY THE GUARDIAN REPORTER

21st August 2013

World Bank (WB) has donated a tune of 405.2m/- to support the Mvumi Makulu Ward in Chamwino District water project.

According to Mvumi Makulu Ward Councillor, Kedmon Sungula, water project will help solve the acute water shortage that has hit the ward for sometime now.

“Water challenge is as a result of old water infrastructure that was put in place to serve only 800 families and yet the ward currently has over 2500 families,” he said.

“Before the WB project, we had the 1972 water infrastructure that was meant to serve at least 800 families. But at the moment the ward has 2510 families who are still relying on the old project. You can imagine how challenging the situation is,” said Sungula.

The Councillor was presenting his implementation report to the Chamwino Municipal Council.

According to Sungula, the - water project worth 405,158,999/ was underway. He said, already the water tank was in place. However, the councillor noted that the laying down of water pipes was in progress.

The WB is also on record as having provided some two boreholes – one to a primary school and the second to the villagers.

According to the councillor, once the WB project comes to completion will to a larger extent help reduce water shortage in the ward.

Water has been a challenge to some parts of the country especially in the rural areas since the country attained its independence more than 50 years ago.

Women in some parts of the country have to walk for kilometres in search of the liquid. Sometimes, the water that they get is not even clean as such.

However, the government in collaboration with some donors has been addressing the challenge slowly.

Of recently, the government through the Water Ministry embarked on major water projects including the famous Shinyanga-Kahama Project.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN