Rwamagana is one of other districts in the Eastern Province that suffer water shortages especially in the dry season.
These water distribution projects were unveiled on July 20 2018 during a news conference between Rwamagana District authority and journalists.
This project will cost Rwf1 885 000 000Frw as it was confirmed by Rwamagana District executive secretary Kakooza Henry.
“The first phase of this project has ended because we extended water pipes from Gishari at Muhazi to a bigger water container in Kigabiro Sector.
This activity cost Rwf700 million.
Moreover, we wish to take clean water to the industrial zone in Mwulire Sector, the project that will take Rwf580 million.” He said.
He further said they will repair water pipe carrying water to Fumbwe Sector, mainly in Nyagasambu area because it has no sufficient water.
He said this action will cost Rwf300 million.
” The vow for Mutuelle de Sante is the one we achieved below 100% and we are proud of the step we made because it is for the first time that Rwamagana District has scored over 90% on health insurance vow,” He said.
So far, this district’s authorities announce that they will once again outperform other districts.

After more than 50 years without piped water, the residents of Lower Buxton and Middle Buxton, two communities in St Ann, have grown accustomed to harvesting rainwater.
When rain nah fall is problems as the toilet can’t flush,” Paul Brown, a resident of Lower Buxton for the past 59 years, told the Jamaica Observer during a visit to the community last week.
“The bad roads slow up business; no taxi nuh come up here as you can hardly drive on the road,” Leonard Clarke, a resident for over 30 years, said.
Carl Wray, who has been living in Middle Buxton for the past 45 years, said the water problem is perpetual.
Majority of the houses here have tanks and are dependent on harvested water.
Every community leading to Brown’s Town have bad roads.
“When you pay taxes you don’t pay it to the MP, you pay it to the Government, and therefore it is an unrealistic expectation that the MP alone can come and initiate these projects without the Government making the allocations.
The difficulty I currently have is that I am not a member of the governing party and funds are operated in such a way that there is no equal access to what is present there, and it is almost impossible to get any infrastructural programmes done,” Dr Campbell said.
“The only funds I have access to, really and truly, over the last two-and-a-half years, would have been the Constituency Development Fund, which is $20 million, and as you would imagine that cannot do any major infrastructural programmes,” he said.
Regarding the road conditions, Dr Campbell said the same applies and made reference to the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme, which was implemented by his political party when it last formed the Government and which provided funds that aided roadworks.

After decades of work on urban water and waste water management in some 40 countries, we have concluded that there is no reason why urban centres of 200 000 or more people cannot have access to clean water that can be drunk straight from the tap without any health concerns.
Very often the view is that technological developments will solve water problems.
Unless these get adequate attention, neither technology nor additional investment funds are likely to resolve the world’s clean water drinking problems.
A decade ago we predicted that unless management practices improved very significantly at least one city in Africa would face unprecedented water crisis within 20 years.
There is good reason to believe people can lead a healthy and productive life with 75 litres to 85 litres of water per day.
For example, water consumption in Czech Republic is now 88 litres per capita per day.
Since Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area has around 22 million people, these policies saved 550 million litres of drinking water every day.
Change in focus Technological developments will undoubtedly help to solve the world’s urban water problems.
But there is increasing evidence that if the aim is to provide everyone with access to clean water, then increasing focus must be placed on governance, institutional issues and policies.
But lack of sustained political will has been the most important missing link critical factor to improve urban water governance in nearly all cities of the world.

Advertisement Many other incidents, in cities ranging from Sydney in Australia to Hong Kong, have made people increasingly sceptical of the quality of water they get at home.
Installations of expensive water treatment systems are exploding in the developed world, as is consumption of bottled water.
Unless these get adequate attention, neither technology nor additional investment funds are likely to resolve the world’s clean water drinking problems.
A decade ago we predicted that unless management practices improved very significantly at least one city in Africa would face unprecedented water crisis within 20 years.
This includes pricing water appropriately as well as incentives for using less water, particularly in times of drought.
There is good reason to believe people can lead a healthy and productive life with 75 to 85 litres of water per day.
For example, water consumption in Czech Republic is now 88 litres per capita per day.
Technological developments will undoubtedly help to solve the world’s urban water problems.
But there is increasing evidence that if the aim is to provide everyone with access to clean water, then increasing focus must be placed on governance, institutional issues and policies.
But lack of sustained political will has been the most important missing link critical factor to improve urban water governance in nearly all cities of the world.

ISLAMABAD: Access to clean drinking water continues to be a major problem in Pakistani cities.
Only 65.2 per cent of households in Pakistan’s ten major cities have access to piped water connections said the State of Pakistani Cities (SPC) report launched on Thursday.
The report presents the current state of development in the 10 largest cities of Pakistan and shed light on the state of economy, social service delivery, planning and development, housing, environment and heritage in the cities of Pakistan.
The report says that according to census 2017, around 75 million people live in urban areas and 54 per cent of the total urban population lives in 10 cities of the country.
It further says that Pakistani cities vary in terms of their size, economy, employment and tax revenues.
Services and industry are the major employment sectors in Pakistani cities.
Pakistan generates 95 per cent of its total federal tax revenue from its 10 major cities and Karachi contributes 55 per cent, Islamabad 16 per cent, and Lahore 15 per cent.
The report emphasises that Pakistani cities need to better plan and manage their development to meet the needs and demands of their citizens and indeed of the country.
Living by the sea, residents of NA-248 crave drinking water Interim Federal Minister for Climate Change Yusuf Shaikh in his remarks reiterated commitment of the government to formulate the National and Provincial Urban Policies through participatory approach to arrive at viable solutions for climate resilient urban development in the country and support measures to implement SDG 11 for inclusive, safe, and resilient cities.
“Sustainable and inclusive urban economies can be created by promoting urban strategies and policies that strengthen the capacity of cities to realize full potential as drivers of socio-economic development,” Akhtar said.

ISLAMABAD: Access to clean drinking water continues to be a major problem in Pakistani cities with only 65.2 percent of households in Pakistan’s ten major cities having access to piped water connections the State of Pakistani Cities (SPC) report launched on Thursday revealed.
The report presents the current state of development in the 10 largest cities of Pakistan and sheds light on the state of the economy, social service delivery, planning and development, housing, environment and heritage in the cities of Pakistan.
Spearheaded by the Ministry of Climate Change with the technical assistance of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN Habitat), the SPC report was funded by the Australian government and highlights the fundamental socio-economic drivers contributing to the local development needs of Pakistan.
The report states that most cities lack sewage treatment facilities and solid waste management which leads to a drastic increase in environmental pollution and contamination of surface and groundwater bodies.
Disruptions and shortage of power supply remains a persistent problem in harnessing the potential of the socio-economic development of the cities.
The report says that according to census 2017, around 75 million people live in urban areas and 54 percent of the total urban population lives in 10 cities of the country.
Services and industry are the major employment sectors in Pakistani cities.
Poverty in urban areas is a major and visible phenomenon.
The report emphasises that Pakistani cities need to better plan and manage their development to meet the needs and demands of their citizens.
Cities need to be more responsive towards the environment and adopt technologies and economies that are less wasteful and destructive in order to flourish.

Paup, who until a few days earlier had never been to Arizona, was exhilarated to have finally arrived at the house on East Hopi Drive — a blue two-bedroom trailer on two acres of land — but also exhausted.
The move from Fallentimber, Pa., where the family lived for 15 years, required a cross-country trip in the semi-truck that Lori’s husband, Craig, drove for work, and now a long list of chores awaited.
“The same color.” Running her hand under the stream, she found what appeared to be small grains of sand.
A small woman with a tight smile and a bright orange streak in her hair, Lori was immediately unnerved by the sight.
Like all homes in the valley, where there are no reservoirs or rivers, the Paups’ house drew its water from a private well drilled into the underlying aquifer.
According to the real estate listing, the well reached a depth of more than 300 feet.
Lori, who is 51 and a mother of five, reminded herself of this when, a few moments later, the sand appeared to clear and the water again looked normal.
Busy with other projects, she scribbled a note to call the previous owners, figuring there was dirt clogged in the kitchen pipes.
A few days later, Lori and her daughter Amy were doing laundry when the washing machine stopped filling with water.
Craig, who had serviced his own diesel truck for some 20 years, inspected both machines but couldn’t find anything wrong with either.

As water scarcity poses a serious threat to different countries, Tajikistan has proposed to expand public-private partnership to open new opportunities to attract additional investments in the water sector and infrastructure.
While briefing journalists during a high-level international conference on the International Decade for Action – Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028 held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tajik Embassy Secretary Bahodur Buriev said that Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon had urged to focus efforts on increasing the efficiency of using available financial resources and finding new sources of financing water-related industries.
In this respect, the expansion of public-private partnership opens new opportunities for attracting additional investments in the water sector and infrastructure, Bahodur Buriev said adding that the beginning of the decade is aimed at forming a broad and open platform for strengthening and expanding the regular multilateral water dialogue with a focus on concrete actions.
He said that the president of Pakistan was also a chief guest of the conference which was held in June and both countries could cooperate in future to strengthen water infrastructure.
According to the calculations of the World Bank, only to achieve the two objectives of the 6th Goal of Sustainable Development, namely, universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation, it will amount to $114 billion annually.
More than 800 million and 2.5 billion of the world’s population, respectively, do not have access to safe drinking water and basic services in the field of water sanitation.
All this indicates that we are still considerably behind in the practical implementation of the set goals and objectives in the field of ensuring access to safe drinking water and sanitation, first secretary said adding that demand for water resources in the world is growing at an accelerated pace, which, in turn, causes tense relations between sectors of the economy.
Replying to a question, he said that Pakistan and Tajikistan were also working on Casa power import project and Tajikistan would start supplying electricity to Pakistan after two years.
About security of power line in Afghanistan, the diplomat said it was the duty of the concerned government to ensure its safety.
Published in Daily Times, July 19th 2018.

The City of St. John’s issued a news release Wednesday afternoon addressing concerns of an unpleasant taste and smell in the city’s drinking water.
The release said it’s not uncommon during the summer months for drinking water to have a “slight ‘earthy’ or ‘musty’ odour and taste”.
“This taste and odour is caused by trace levels of naturally occurring organic substances produced by plants and algae in the water source.
The human nose is extremely sensitive to these organic substances especially when showering or making tea as heating the water increases volatility of the organic substances.” The city’s water supply comes from Windsor Lake, Bay Bulls Big Pond and Petty Harbour Long Pond.
The release said while the water may taste and smell unpleasant, it’s not harmful or toxic, and it’s analyzed daily.
It’s also not known how long the taste and smell will persist because it’s a “naturally occurring phenomenon”.
In the past, it’s lasted for up to two to three weeks.
Meantime, the release said residents could add lemon or citrus to the water to improve the taste, or keep a cold jug of water in the fridge.
Residents concerned about their water can contact Access St. John’s by calling 311 or 754-CITY (2489) or by online web submission.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The City of Newburgh and other municipalities with contaminated drinking water supplies would have as much as $240 million more in federal cleanup grant funds under legislation being pushed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
On Tuesday Gillibrand advocated for passage of the “Contaminant and Lead Electronic Accounting and Reporting Requirements for Drinking Water Act,” which was introduced in the U.S. Senate on July 11.
Available grant money to help municipalities meet Safe Drinking Water Act requirements and test their water systems would increase from the current $60 million to $230 million in the 2019 fiscal year and $300 million in fiscal years 2020 through 2023.
“Clean water is something that every New Yorker should have access to,” Gillibrand said.
“But we see that isn’t the case.” The legislation would also expand Environmental Protection Agency reporting requirements to include the listing of public systems in violation of safe water standards or with an exemption from national regulations.
It would also authorize the EPA to provide technical assistance to municipalities whose water supplies violate Safe Drinking Water Act requirements and create a database of health results for lead and other contaminants.