Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene January - February 2016 vol.11 no.1 | Page 5

NEWS in brief

Around Africa

Angola

Ethiopia

Huíla - Over 3,000 Get Drinkable Water

AfDB provides water supply and sanitation to towns
and villages

Lubango — At least 3,300
residents in Comandante CowBoy neighbourhood, outskirts
of Lubango, are until recently
getting drinkable water.
This follows the inauguration
of a water supplying system
by the Governor of southern
Huíla province, João Marcelino
Tyipinge.

João Marcelino Tyipinge.

The system that cost nearly US$ 60,000 was built under
the first phase of the Programme for Institutional
Development of Water Sector (PDISA), and has the
capacity to supply 60 cubic metres of water per hour.
Lubango, the capital of Huíla province, has a population
estimated at 731,380 inhabitants.

Botswana
Govt Finances Lake Ngami Trust

Four Ethiopian towns
will achieve universal
coverage for water
supply and sanitation
by 2020 through a new
loan from the African
Development Bank
(AfDB).
Children play by a newly installed hand
Approved on January
pump in the village of Jedane
13, 2016, the USD
76.11-million loan will improve the lives of nearly one
million people in the towns of Adama, Adwa, Bichena and
Gode and the nearby villages.

“The project will help increase both water supply and
sanitation coverage to 100%,” said Mohamed El Azizi,
Director, Water and Sanitation, at the AfDB.
With an average access of 53% for water supply and
76% for sanitation, the four towns are lagging behind the
national average (84.5% for water supply), with in some
cases access below 7%.

The government has
given P4 million to the
newly formed Lake
Ngami
Conservation
Trust to finalize all
the logistics and start
operations.
Ngami
constituency
MP, Mr Thato Kwerepe informed residents during a
kgotla meeting that the government has assisted the trust
financially and questioned the delay to start developments.
The trust, situated in Sehithwa, was supposed to have
started operations last March but failed because it had no
resources to open an office.
Mr Kwerepe said the trust could have done something by
now as fishing was suspended last year to pave way for the
trust to put its house in order and get ready to take control
of the lake.
The trust was also to come up with solutions to address
environmental concerns caused by fishermen at the lake.
He requested the trust chairperson to give an explanation
to residents on why there was a delay as the expectation
was that the development should be complete before the
next fishing season.

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