The National Water and Sewerage Corporation’s Managing Director, Dr. Eng Silver Mugisha during the role of the new Corporate Plan, revealed plans for Water Supply improvement projects, using modular designs, for atleast 7million litres/day additional capacity per city bound to serve Ugandans for 7-10 years.

 

Dr Silver highlighted Corporate Plan transformation initiatives which include; a resilient utility,  SMART utility model, an Innovation and Incubation center,  strengthening NRW Accountability Framework, In-house Meter Testing and Maintenance Labs, Green Technology Adoption and Decentralised waste, Competency- based Career Development, NWSC Captive Insurance Company, NWSC Captive Construction Company, Digitization and Improved Work flow Processes for Agile Work Environment, African Water and Sanitation Academy and, an In- House Medical Facility and E-health  system.

 

He also shared some of the game changing strategic interventions such as;

1) Mobilising funding for downstream sewerage collection infrastructure for Greater Kampala and design and implementation of low-cost appropriate sewage treatment technologies in other towns

2) Financial support for 6-Cities Water Supply improvement project, using modular designs, for atleast 7,000m3/day additional capacity per city, to serve for 7-10yrs (estimated budget: UGX 300Bn/-)

3) Support to high climate change resilience infrastructure for NWSC towns, through mixed technology options and decentralised WSS systems.

4) Mobilising more support from security agents to mitigate vandalism and theft of NWSC infrastructure assets, leading into financial and revenue losses

5) Strengthening provisions of financing agreements relating to loan financing so that the client has more soverign rights to decide on critical stages of procurements of projects

6) Mobilising financing to cater for funding gaps on settling arrears on completed projects to mitigate costly interest payments.