$9m earmarked for water works in Malawi city
Malawi’s Lilongwe Water Board has set aside $9-million for water works that will include the construction of reservoir tanks and dams.
GM Gabriel Gonani says the water board has accessed the funds for the project, aimed at improving water supply and sanitation services in the city, from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA).
The IDA is financing the project under the umbrella of Malawi’s multidonor-funded National Water Development Programme, which is overhauling water supply systems in cities and towns across the country.
Gonani says the project is intended to cater for the growing population Lilongwe and ensure the extension of services to new areas that have become part of the city following the extension of the city’s boundary in 2008.
He says the water board will, among other things, construct ground and elevated reser- voirs, two pumphouses and a 60 km supply net-work.
Deputy GM Samson Mwandira comments that the water board is also progressing plans to construct a new dam at Diampwe, 60 km from the city.
“At Diampwe, we will be trapping the water at source and through gravity. Using this technology, we will supply the whole city of Lilongwe with ease,” he says.
The water board is also working on increasing the height of one of the existing dams, Kamuzu Dam 1. Mwandira says the water board is cur-rently buying equipment for the project, using funds from the World Bank.
“As the city is growing, there is need for more interventions to make water available, even during peak hours. “With these projects pro-gressing, everything is going according to plan,” he says.
Water shortages are a regular occurrence in Malawi’s major cities of Lilongwe and Blantyre, which has prompted the World Bank to lead other donors in financing the National Water Development Programme.
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