Member of Parliament (MP) for Petauke Central Dora Siliya has expressed happiness with works that have so far been done on the Water Reticulation Project which will cater for 25 000 residents in the district at a cost of K14 billion.
Ms Siliya who is also Education Minister noted that with the new functional equipment in place for the water system, diarrhoeal
diseases will be a thing of the past.
ZANIS reports that Ms Siliya said when she conducted a tour of the newly built water pumping station and kiosks in Petauke yesterday that a lot of community publicity needs to be done to let people be aware of the project.
The MP noted that this will teach people to be responsible and take care of the kiosks and other equipment being put up.
And Eastern Water and Sewerage Company (EWSC) Managing Director Wamuwi Changani disclosed that
11 water kiosks have been placed in Petauke district to help address water shortage there.
Mr Changani said the kiosks have been placed in different points to cater for 1,500 households.
He also disclosed that the ongoing Petauke water reticulation project will cater for all the 25 thousand residents in the district.
Mr. Changani explained that the quality of water has to meet the set standards by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
He noted that this will reduce water borne diseases that used due to lack of clean water.
ZANIS
When should we transport cadres to go and make numbers when commissioning?
@1, we do not need to transport cadres. if you are not blind or illiterate, i am sure that you may have read in the article that there are 25,000 residents there to benefit from the water. these residents are mmd, pf, upnd, add, narep etc they will all go to cheer the commissioning ceremony.
What kind of planning for ALL residents results in kiosks for water? …Why not create fully plumbed water to ALL 25000 residents.
They want taps in their houses not buckets of water daily needed to be carried from the kiosks.
MMD could not plan any town if they depended on it to reach millenium goals