Three Amuru villages lack clean water

Mar 28, 2016

Residents have to walk long distances to collect clean water.

AMURU - As many as three villages with some 600 households in Amuru district are struggling to access clean water.

Residents have to walk as far as six kilometres to collect water from boreholes, according to a local leader of one of the affected villages.

The villages are Ayila, Aswa and Onyango all in Lamogi sub-county.

Francis Opoka, the LC1 chairman of Ayila village, says locals have to walk long distances to Olwal Muchaja Primary School and Olwal Health Centre II at Olwal trading centre for clean water.

The other water points are at Kaladima Primary School and the health centre III.

There are growing concerns that the people in the area are at risk of contracting waterborne diseases.

Opoka said his office and the sub-county's community development officer are aware of the situation and an assessment was carries out in the area.

The Lamogi sub-county council is understood to have already allocated and approved a budget for drilling boreholes in the three affected villages before the end of this financial year.

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