UN News Center August 1, 2011 The United Nations independent expert on the right to water and sanitation has taken note of Namibia’s success in expanding access to water and urged the Government to make similar efforts to ensure that proper sanitation is available to more people in the southern African country. At the end […]

Tatiana Fedotova July 22, 2011 Africa could finally be turning a corner in the sanitation crisis say civil society groups ANEW and FAN, NGO WaterAid, WSSCC and the End Water Poverty Campaign attending AfricaSan3 in Kigali, Rwanda. The comments come at the end of the conference designed to “put Africa back on track to meet […]

Newton Sibanda July 22, 2011 African governments are increasingly under pressure to ‘walk the talk’ on sanitation. According to a statement from WaterAid- an international nongovernmental organisation whose mission is to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities- grassroots activists in Africa came together at AfricaSan […]

Fredrick Mugira and Frank Rijsberman July 20, 2011 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced more than $41 million in grants to spark new innovations in sanitation. The announcement was made by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President of the foundation’s Global Development program in her keynote address at the Third Africa Conference on Hygiene and Sanitation […]

Joyce Chimbi July 19, 2011 The heat is intolerable although it is barely noon, by three O’clock in the afternoon it is usually so hot that people rarely venture outside for fear of been stricken by the much feared heat stroke. This is Mandera, North Eastern Kenya, a hard ship area, a region characterized by […]

Newton Sibanda July 15th 2011 JAPAN has given Zambia 127 billion Kwacha for the repair and expansion of water supply facilities in Ndola, the administrative capital of Zambia’s Copperbelt region. According to a statement released by the Japanese Embassy in Lusaka, “Specifically, the grant will be used to repair the Kafubu water treatment plant and […]

Newton Sibanda July 13, 2011 ZAMBIA’s premier telecommunications company, ZAMTEL has launched a K2billion water project in which 36 boreholes will be sunk across the country. Hans Paulsen, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer says the ‘Water for Life’ programme is aimed at giving disadvantaged communities access to clean water. Paulsen said in Mumbwa, a rural […]

Gasirigwa Sengiyumva 8th July, 2011 IT is past mid-day, the overhead Sun is heating like it has never rained in Kilolo before. This is a village in Njombe Region where an organization called Kilolo Star is based. I approach a workshop and to my amazement I find a number of girls assembling a KS 1000 […]

Our Reporter in Malawi June 20, 2011 One of the three Malawi’s public water utility providers, the Northern Region Water Board has posted US$60 million loss in its water provision operations, government authorities have revealed. The authorities attribute the loss to poor management of water resources such as failure to repair broken pipes and leakage […]

Michael Malakata June 17, 2011 A new power utility company, Itezhi-tezhi Power Corporation is setting up a US$5 million water and sewerage infrastructure in the Southern part of Zambia. It becomes the first private company to be allowed to provide piped water to the community. Itezhi-tezhi Power Corporation, a joint venture between India’s TATA Africa […]

Joseph Ngome June 14, 2011 More than 10 years ago, United Nations conceived an idea of providing several African cities with adequate water. Seven cities in African continent were selected to serve as demonstration cities in the dream to provide the precious commodity, water to the residents. The cities selected to serve as the project […]