With millions still navigating the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the challenge of clean safe water scarcity, now more than ever, access to safe water is critical to the health of families in Uganda.
The Ugandan government through National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) now aims to have clean and improved sanitation for all by 2030 and it intends to reach this goal by investing in quality water infrastructure, which involves restoring and maintaining clean water sources as well as promoting hygiene and investing in sanitation facilities.
Cases in point are the areas of Lyantonde and Kiruhura that have been faced with water supply challenges due to increased demand caused partly by the start-up of the industrial park in the area coupled with a challenge of the poor quality of the raw water being abstracted which has led to high costs of production.
NWSC has therefore secured funding to implement the Lyantonde-Kiruhura Water Supply Project aimed at supplying good quality drinking water to the stressed areas of Kiruhura and Lyantonde including the Industrial Park in Nshara and the surrounding communities. A Contract was signed with M/S Plumbase (U) LTD and Anhui Holding Group Company LTD JV to execute the project.
This project entails development of an off-shore water in-take and a water treatment plant of capacity 5,000m3 per day, on the shores of Lake Kakyeera at Rukukuru Landing Site. The treated water will be pumped to a 1,500m3 storage reservoir within Nshaara Ranch; from where it will gravitate to the areas of Rukukuru, Nshaara, Rwempogo, Akageeti, the industrial park, Rushere and the surrounding areas for domestic, agricultural and industrial use.
Notably, project works are now ongoing at the treatment plant site in Rukukuuru and are at an advanced stage. The Project is expected to be complete by end of December 2022.
NWSC is committed to Water for All for a delighted customer, by a delighted workforce.
