National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), on behalf of The Government of the Republic of Uganda (GoU), has completed construction of The Katosi-Kampala Drinking Water Transmission Mains to supply drinking water to the increasing population of the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area.
The very much anticipated project works consist of a 51km of Pipeline of various sizes (DN 1400mm to DN500mm) and associated works from a new reservoir at Nsumba hill to a new reservoir at Ssonde hill and from Ssonde reservoir to a new Booster station at Namugongo and finally to Naguru reservoir. It is also characterized by a reinforced concrete reservoir of capacity 15,000m3 at Ssonde hill and, a new booster station at Namugongo with associated electromechanical equipment
Following completion of the works, the system is now under final testing and pre-comissioning phase which stage involves flushing and disinfection of the water mains and the new reservoir before the water can be supplied to customers.
A press release was sent out to the public about the flushing exercise bound to commence on Tuesday 11th May 2021 and shall take a maximum of 15 days. During this exercise, water shall be flushed into surrounding drainage channels at various points along the pipeline route to clean the pipe.
The management of NWSC is utterly humbled by the customers’ patience thus far and look forward to more of the same during the aforementioned exercise.
NWSC reaffirms that adding the 160,000,000 litres per day to the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area shall go a long way in solving the existing water scarcity.
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