Chris Ahimbisibwe
22 October 2008
Kampala — THE National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) is seeking sh15b to set up another water treatment plant in Bushenyi district to meet the increasing water demand.
The company's planning and capital development chief manager, Eng. Johnson Amayo, said the plant would be constructed in Kitagata sub-county where, he said, they had identified a water source.
Amayo said the current source was not matching the increasing population in the area.
He was last week speaking at the groundbreaking of the renovation of the Nyaruzinga NWSC treatment area in the Bushenyi-Ishaka town council.
The repairs, which will take eight months, are expected to cost sh2.2b.
"It is fortunate we have landed on a water source in Kitagata because the swamp, which is currently our source, dries up during the dry season," he observed.
He said the available pumping system could not propel water from the nearby Bunyaruguru county.
The current water pump system pumps only 500 to 540 of the expected 2,000 cubic metres.
VAMBECO Company, a construction firm, has been charged with undertaking the repairs in Bushenyi.
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