Joseph Kariuki
25 November 2008
Kampala — SIXTY percent of water sources in Katakwi are contaminated as a result of recent floods, the district chief has said.
"We are disinfecting water sources but we have few boreholes which make it a difficult to access water," John Robert Ekongot said.
"Our health department has taken steps to sensitise the people about the problem," he told journalists last Thursday.
Ekongot said sh40b had been lost as a result of the floods.
Farming has been disrupted and food crops destroyed as a result of the floods, he added.
Enkongot said the roads were impassable. "If it continues to rain, I do not know what we will do."
Joseph Arwata, the resident district commissioner, said: "People are in camps and there is no production taking place. We have to depend on the World Food Programme for food."
Ochwen camp LC1 secretary general George Etonu said displaced persons were hard hit by the floods and and locusts.
Be the first to Write a Comment!
Copyright © 2008 New Vision. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
