Residents with the worst access to clean water in the country received new water pipes last weekend. Gasabo District officials finalized the pipes in Gikomero sector last weekend.

Where residents previously walked dozens of kilometers to fetch often dirty water, now fresh, clean water flows. With the new pipes, the last sector in Gasabo with water insecurity now has well access.

Residents expressed their feelings of joy that they no longer had to spend hours looking for water. At the well, residents crowded around, excited and eager to fill their buckets.

"For a young person, he should spend at least an hour to get water but for me.As an old mum, I used to spend two hours," explained Seraphine Mukantagara, a resident from Munini cell.

"It was impossible for a student to fetch water before going to school in the morning. If he did not fetch it at the evening, he would miss school while fetching water in the morning," she added.

Jean Claude Munara, the vice mayor in charge of economic affairs who presided the event said that the district worries about the welfare of its residents that there is no good welfare without clean water.

He said that the money spent on the project came from the people's activities, both taxes and other sources, and that they have to be the ones to protect the newwell infrastructure for it to be sustainable.

"Make sure that this water is protected from its source, all the way up to the spout, in order to ensure its sustainability", he says. "Itwould be shameful to have water pipes that no longer function after one month," added Munara.

The project has cost Frw 220 million and is totally funded by the district.