Thursday, March 28, 2024

Solwezi river threatened by indiscriminate plot allocation

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North Western Water Supply and Sewerage Company Limited (NWSSCL) is concern with the manner in which the local authority is allocating plots along the Solwezi River upstream before the abstraction points.

NWSSCL Technical and Maintenance Manager John Chilufya said this has caused siltation of the Solwezi River and will also affect the quality of water being supplied to the residents.

Engineer Chilufya was speaking in Solwezi during a stakeholder consultative meeting for water users today.

Mr Chilufya explained that the company was experiencing high maintenance expenses on pumping equipment due to siltation.

He urged the local authority to engage stakeholders when allocating land to avoid conflict of interest.

But Town Clerk Venture Kafula said the local authority was not aware of allocating plots to any residents along the river.

Mr Kafula said the Water Company had discussions before with the local authority on the matter where it was explained that the plots in question were not given out by the council.

Unknown people have sub divided the upstream banks of the Solwezi River which is the main source of water supply in Solwezi district.

2 COMMENTS

  1. When leadership is suspect the masses suffer, including our God given natural resources! Let us restore control in this land of ours, at the rate we are going we shall have nothing to show in respect to nature in the next thirty years pa Zed!?? How can the council have NO IDEA that there is land allocation upstream on a strategic river???? They are either lying or shouldn’t be in those offices!!

  2. Political cadres doing their usual thing. They are ‘more powerful’ than the council itself. But i thought police have now taken charge as in Lusaka. Very sad!

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