Katakwi faces safe water shortage
Nov 25, 2008
SIXTY percent of water sources in Katakwi are contaminated as a result of recent floods, the district chief has said.
By Joseph Kariuki
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.â€
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.â€
Ochwen camp LC1 secretary general George Etonu said displaced persons were hard hit by the floods and and locusts.
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.â€
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.â€
Ochwen camp LC1 secretary general George Etonu said displaced persons were hard hit by the floods and and locusts.