Government says it is spending a lot of money on treating diseases that can be prevented by providing clean water and habitable sanitation.
Western Province minister Richard Kapita says, government’s agenda is to ensure that people in every corner of the country have access to clean and safe water.
Mr. Kapita says clean drinking water and sanitation are a key component to attaining a healthy and productive nation.
Mr. Kapita said this in a speech read on his behalf by Western Province assistant permanent secretary Betrice Muyambango during the commissioning of the Mangango water supply scheme in the integration resettlement scheme.
He said government alone cannot entirely provide everything to citizens hence the need to work with other stakeholders like the Japanese government in improving water challenges and addressing other needy areas of the economy like education and health.
And Japanese Ambassador to Zambia Hidenobu Sobashima said the Japanese government has put in more than One million kwacha to ensure that the Mangango water project is completed.
Mr Sobashima said the Japanese government will continue supplementing government’s efforts in improving the lives of the people across the country.
And United Nations High Commission for Refugees information and publicity manager Kelvin Shimo thanked the Japanese government for the water project which he said will help prevent waterborne diseases in the resettlement scheme.