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  • July 10
  • AIM Mozambique: Zambezi Basin Countries Support New Dam

    The seven member countries of SADC (Southern African Development Community) who share the Zambezi basin, have expressed support for the construction of a new dam on the Zambezi at Mepanda Nkua, in the western Mozambican province of Tete.

  • Nation Kenya: Mombasa Set for Major Water Shortage

    Mombasa residents are set to face a major water crisis due to the high number of illegal connections along the main Mzima pipeline in Voi district.

  • Business Daily Kenya: Curbing Waste Needs More Than Just Change of Cars [editorial]

    By rejecting a fleet of top of the range cars bought two months ago, State House has executed one of the most successful public relations coups in Kenya in recent times.

  • The Citizen Tanzania: Church Inaugurate Rural Water Projects

    The Ruaha diocese of the Anglican Church, has spent over Sh600 million on water projects to cater for about 19,000 people in Lusinga, Kilolo, Luganga and Utengule villages in Kilolo District, Iringa Region.

  • Public Agenda Ghana: 'Zoom Captains' Off to China for Further Training

    Twenty four out of the 25 'Zoom Captains' who passed out of a special training by Zoomlion Ghana Limited left Accra on July 2, 2009 for a two months further training in the operation of heavy duty equipment in China.

  • Business Daily Kenya: Council By-Laws Force Rainwater Down the Drain

    It beats logic that for a city like Nairobi, that faces chronic water shortage, some by- laws make it illegal for owners of business premises to harvest rainwater.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: City Curbs Water Leakages

    THE City of Harare has embarked on a massive pipe replacement programme in a bid to cut leakages accounting for the loss of almost half of all treated water.

  • Monitor Uganda: Kyenjojo Town Hit By Water Shortage

    Residents of Kyenjojo Town Council have spent over two weeks without water, Daily Monitor has learnt. The residents, whom Daily Monitor spoke to yesterday, said they had resorted to using pond and swamp water and only a few lucky ones draw water from boreholes.

  • New Vision Uganda: DFCU Bank Boosts Arua, Lira

    The bank, in partnership with Water Aid, Caritas, BIRUDEAS and Divine Waters, commissioned several water tanks and VIP latrines in Arua and Lira districts in an effort to stop deaths from cholera.

  • July 9
  • Nation Ethiopia: Govt to Build Fourth Dam On River Omo

    Ethiopia will build the fourth hydro dam along the Omo River despite the concerns from environmentalists, the Nation has established.

  • Nation Kenya: No End in Sight to Water Woes

    A solution to Nairobi's water shortage appeared even more elusive on Thursday when the Nairobi Water Company further tightened rationing, a day after its board was dissolved.

  • Nation Kenya: We Need a Water Board, Minister Told

    Water minister Charity Ngilu should move fast in approving a water board in order to facilitate the receiving of funds to rehabilitate the town's sewage system.

  • New Times Rwanda: Water Crisis Persists

    Public water and electricity utility, Electrogaz has started water rationing to ease on the shortages that have rocked Kigali city for at least the past one month.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Jikwoyi Residents Decry Hike in Water Price

    Residents of Jikwoyi, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, yesterday lamented the price hike of bore-hole water by water vendors, popularly called Mairuwa.

  • This Day Nigeria: Don't Tell Me About 2011 Now - Orji

    Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Ahamafule Orji, recently squeezed time out of his crowded schedule to speak to THISDAY in Umuahia, the state capital. The Progressive Peoples Party (PPA) governor, who is becoming renowned for his forthrightness, comments freely on several topical issues including the the menace of kidnapping, the recent ban of motorcycles (okada) in Umuahia, Aba and some other ...

  • July 8
  • IRIN Zimbabwe: Another Round of Cholera Expected

    Despite a steady drop in newly registered cases and cholera-related deaths in Zimbabwe, the onset of the summer rainy season in September has aid agencies worried that the disease could spike again, and relief from Africa's worst cholera outbreak in 15 years may be short-lived.

  • Nation Kenya: City Water Board Sent Packing

    The entire board of the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company was on Wednesday sent packing over alleged mismanagement.

  • Ghanaian Chronicle Ghana: Is Accra Ready for Obama's Visit? [column]

    The capital city on Friday would play host to the first African-American President of the United States of America, Hussein Barrack Obama.

  • Shabait Eritrea: New Micro-Dam Constructed in Adi-Tekelezan Sub-Zone

    A new micro-dam has been constructed in Embaderho Tahtai administrative area, Adi-Tekelezan sub-zone, at a cost of about 1.2 million Nakfa through the collaboration of the Anseba regional Administration and partners.

  • Ghanaian Chronicle Ghana: Contractors Abandon Work On Teshie Drains

    Snippets of information picked by the Accra File indicates that contractors working on the drains in the Teshie Township have abandoned their work, giving way for some unscrupulous residents to destroy the uncompleted projects.

  • New Times Rwanda: Mineral Water Prices Up 20 Percent

    As Rwanda experiences a water shortage caused by prolonged drought in some parts of the country, traders have increased mineral water prices by 20 percent to 3,000 from Rwf2,500 per carton, The Business Times has leant.

  • New Vision Uganda: Hoima Gets Sh300 Million Water Project

    A sh300m gravity water project has been commissioned in Hoima district. The project in Bulyango trading centre in Kitooba sub-county was on Tuesday handed over to the residents by the Minister for Water and Environment, Maria Mutagamba.

  • July 7
  • IPS Somalia: Finding Water in Mogadishu

    Pipes, reservoirs and water treatment plants in south and central Somalia have been extensively vandalised in the years since the collapse of Siad Barre's government in 1991. In the long absence of central authority, Mogadishu's residents have devised their own informal water distribution systems, but there are many shortcomings.

  • Nation Kenya: Country Faces a Critical Energy Crunch - Are We Prepared? [opinion]

    KENYA IS STUMBLING FROM one energy crisis to another. A double avalanche of critical power and water shortfalls is lurching inexorably closer to us.

  • Shabait Eritrea: Various Potable Water Supply Projects Worth Over 7.7 Million Nakfa Implement in Northern Red Sea Region

    In line with the endeavors being made by the Northern Red Sea regional Administration and partners to provide reliable potable water supply to the people, various potable water supply projects were implemented in the region over the past 6 months at a cost of 7.7 million Nakfa.

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