NWSC gets sh28b
Mar 31, 2009
NATIONAL Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has received 9.5m euros (about sh28b) for the Gaba offshore intake pipeline project for Kampala and Jinja.
By James Odomel
NATIONAL Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has received 9.5m euros (about sh28b) for the Gaba offshore intake pipeline project for Kampala and Jinja.
Water minister Maria Mutagamba announced this on Monday while launching the project in Gaba, Kampala. The project is funded by the French government.
“The work will entail construction of 300m of the pipeline from Kiluba island into the lake. The entire section of the pipeline will be laid under water with a lifting station, abstracting water from the main body of the lake,†she explained.
Mutagamba said the project would not only result into saving chemicals used but also save consumers from the likely health effects of increased chemical content in the water.
“Construction of the intake will reduce the quality of chemicals from the current requirement of 60mg per litre of aluminium sulphate to 20mg.â€
The NWSC managing director, Dr. William Muhairwe, promised to make sure the project is finished on time.
“The contractors have promised that by the end of the 12 months, the project will be completed, while the Jinja project will take only nine months,†he said.
Muhairwe said the problems of Lake Victoria were due to a number of extraneous factors like climatic, demographic and environmental changes.
“As an example of the demographic changes, the population in Kampala has rapidly increased,†he said.
NATIONAL Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has received 9.5m euros (about sh28b) for the Gaba offshore intake pipeline project for Kampala and Jinja.
Water minister Maria Mutagamba announced this on Monday while launching the project in Gaba, Kampala. The project is funded by the French government.
“The work will entail construction of 300m of the pipeline from Kiluba island into the lake. The entire section of the pipeline will be laid under water with a lifting station, abstracting water from the main body of the lake,†she explained.
Mutagamba said the project would not only result into saving chemicals used but also save consumers from the likely health effects of increased chemical content in the water.
“Construction of the intake will reduce the quality of chemicals from the current requirement of 60mg per litre of aluminium sulphate to 20mg.â€
The NWSC managing director, Dr. William Muhairwe, promised to make sure the project is finished on time.
“The contractors have promised that by the end of the 12 months, the project will be completed, while the Jinja project will take only nine months,†he said.
Muhairwe said the problems of Lake Victoria were due to a number of extraneous factors like climatic, demographic and environmental changes.
“As an example of the demographic changes, the population in Kampala has rapidly increased,†he said.