{"id":2193,"date":"2021-05-23T10:04:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T10:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2021-05-24T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T06:33:06","slug":"kisoro-virungas-water-supply-extension-commisioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/kisoro-virungas-water-supply-extension-commisioned\/","title":{"rendered":"KISORO VIRUNGAS WATER SUPPLY EXTENSION COMMISIONED"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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NWSC has been at the forefront of the implementation of the Kisoro Virungas Water Supply\u00a0Extension (KVWSE) which is the key output of the Water4Virungas Project (Dec 2016 \u2013 March\u00a02021) which was on 17 th May 2021 commissioned by the Minister of State for Regional Cooperation,\u00a0Dr. Philemon Mateke.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The KVWSE project is one of the infrastructural investments implemented as an effort towards\u00a0conflict resolution between communities living at the foot of the Virunga Volcanic Ranges in\u00a0Uganda-Rwanda-DRC and the Wildlife in the National Parks that are located in that zone.<\/p>

This project is an upgrade of the existing distribution system which is interconnecting the New\u00a0Nkanka Network with the old Chuho Network through a new Booster Station at Bukara Village in\u00a0Muramba Sub County, that delivers 50,000Litres per hour to serve a demand in the project area of\u00a035,000Litres per hour. The excess 15,000Litres per hour will be extended further through SCAP-\u00a0100 to serve dry zones like Kibugu RGC-Muramba SubCounty and Upper Rutare Parish in Chahi
Sub-County.<\/p>

Characterized by 17 villages in the Parishes of Rukongi, Gitenderi and Gisozi with in 2 Sub-Counties\u00a0of Nyarusiza and Muramba covering about 27m\u00b2, the KVWSE project Area is located in Kisoro\u00a0District and is currently serving about 19,512 people though designed to serve up to 25,500 people\u00a0by 2033.<\/p>

Notably, a lot has been done under the KVWSE project namely; 3 level stakeholder engagement\u00a0(District Leadership level, Sub County Leadership level and Beneficiary Village Level), constructed 2\u00a0new Booster Stations (Bukara Booster of 50,000Litres\/hr and Buzeyi Booster of 16,000Litres\/hr),\u00a0upgraded 2 existing Booster Stations in Nyarusiza Sub County (Nyarusiza Booster from\u00a010,000Litres\/hr to 40,000Litres\/hr, Gasiza Booster from 10,000Litres\/hr to 30,000Litres\/hr and
also, constructed 5 new Reservoirs of total storage capacity of 414,000Liters making over all\u00a0storage in the zone of 714,000Litres.<\/p>

The project has also seen to the installation of 2 Diesel Generators (80KVA at Gasiza Booster the\u00a0and 45KVA at Buzeyi Booster) and, a 1.2km 3-phase Hydro Electricity line from Bunagana Road to\u00a0Bukara Booster, 2.1km 3-phase Hydro Electricity line from Gasiza to the new Buzeyi Booster. It also\u00a0upgraded the power connection at Gasiza Booster with installation of a 100KVA transformer, laid a\u00a0robust transmission main of 9.6km, laid a distribution network of 25.1km, constructed 34 PSPs in\u00a017 villages and, set up and trained 34 Water user committees for proper management of the PSPs.<\/p>

Water4Virungas Coordinator, Executive Secretary for Greater Virungas Transboundary\u00a0Collaboration, Kisoro District Local Government, UWA, UPDF, UP and the Media were part of the\u00a0stakeholders present at the commissioning.<\/p>

The key partners recognized for playing key roles in the project include; International Gorilla\u00a0Conservation Programme, Wageningen University and Research, Uganda Wild Life Authority,\u00a0Witteveen+Bos, Managing Development Forward-Uganda, Greater Virunga Transboundary\u00a0Collaboration and, the National Water and Sewerage Corporation.\u00a0The commissioning of this project gives utmost confidence for sustainability of the new Water\u00a0Supply System to the community in Kisoro.<\/p>

NWSC is committed to Water for All for a delighted customer by a delighted workforce.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NWSC has been at the forefront of the implementation of the Kisoro Virungas Water Supply Extension (KVWSE) which is the key output of the Water4Virungas Project (Dec 2016 \u2013 March 2021) which was on 17 th May 2021 commissioned by the Minister of State for Regional Cooperation, Dr. Philemon Mateke. The KVWSE project is one of the infrastructural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}