The Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC) has said that it has observed high concentrations of molasses from unknown sources on the Kafue River which is giving a brown colour to the water after the treatment process.
In a satetement released to the media today , the the company said that its water surveillance unit has established that there was a high concentration of molasses that was being discharged into the Kafue River, hence polluting the water.
The firm said that a team has since been dispatched upstream to further investigate the source of this molasses contamination.
“The company would like to take this opportunity to assure its customers that the water is safe for consumption despite the color. Efforts are being made to ensure the color of the water is within acceptable limits”, read the statement.
The company further said that it has engaged Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) and the Zambia Environmental Management Authority, (ZEMA) so that they can come on board to help investigate this matter.
The company also commended its team which undertakes water quality surveillance on a daily basis and quality control to ensure that the water supplied meets the quality standards required.
“LWSC is guided by the Zambia Bureau of Standards guidelines to produce and supply quality drinking water to its customers. In that regard, the water supplied by the utility company goes through a standard treatment process before it is supplied to the customers”, concluded the statement.
Kafue river is probably polluted by illegal moonshine makers and Lusaka streets are polluted by hawkers plus salaula traders given permission by MCS.
Political expediency will not allow proper order and cleanliness or enforcement of city by-laws.
Probably Pee from UNDP cadres, they consume high quantities of sugar mu Chibwantu. Keep them away from water bodies!
@Nubian Princess proving that you can take an African to America but you can never remove 3rd world mentality from an African.
Is this statement made on some kachasu concoction in a tavern.
The other day a minister was saying mushrooms were digging up a road now its molasses from unknown sources discolouring a running river. Let’s just call it the plagues.
Molasses! Are by products of a sugar making process, therefore the water in kafue must be sweeter than in mazabuka,,, I wish I was kafue, zigi yayayayya! I used drink it ku boarding
This is not rocket science.
Nakambala sugar estates.
Why beat about the bush????
Charge them the appropriate fee for violating environmental fimo fimo.
That stuff is coming from Zambia Sugar processing plant in Mazabuka. What is the Mazabuka area MP Nkombo doing? Nothing just busy sha.gging his United Dunderhead female constituents in guestlodges…sad but true. United Dunderhead MPs are the most hopeless in Zambia’s entire history even MMD MPs were more useful than this lot, they are as usefull as idle stones you find on the side of the road, but they only get re-elected because they are idle stones that originate from the United Dunderhead strongholds. Sad but very true.
There are only two sugar estates upstream to the LWSC water intake. I would say the Indians running Kafue Sugar are the likely culprits. Zambia Sugar are part of a serious multinational group. Zambia Sugar have been producing sugar for the longest part in Zambia without such environmental issues.
Nubian Princess – you are so obsessed with UPND – do you actually sleep peacefully at night or are your dreams filled with pictures of UPND ?
Kafue sugar, prime suspects.
Someone that is linked to the Zambia sugar company is at fault here. Problem solved kikikiki.
Meanwhile ZEMA is camped at mmembes house
If these empty tins can not pin point the the source of Molasses to send a hefty bill to the culprit and are dispatching teams ..surely how can they catch the likes of KCM and other manufacturers who dump toxic chemicals.
The statement is faulty. There is no way a river can be contaminated by molasses only by chemicals or bacteriological elements.
Statement reads high concentrations.
Dziko Latha!!
Up stream where?don’t you know why Nakambala is? Don’t think pipo are all as dull as you are
There’s Kafue Sugar Estates also, other than Nakambala. You have been out of Zambia for too long.
Nakambala is downstream
Unknown sources? Boza
you people from the time the illegal president took over, nothing seems to go ok. We seem to get problem after problem. It seems the country has been cursed. One cannot simply steal an election and expect to receive blessings. I believe lungu’s days are numbered. Here where I am in leeds for a working visit, if there was any sign that their water was polluted, it would be a big deal with alot of legal repercussions. Very sad day for zambia
Keep dreamìng UPNDonkey, its your constitutional right, I mean the donkey constitution not the one for non donkeys and human kind.
The company also commended its team which undertakes water quality surveillance on a daily basis and quality control to ensure that the water supplied meets the quality standards required. WHY Commend them and yet that is their JOB description MARABISH
ok molasses in the water, other Cuntries sell there molasses why don’t we find a market for it.
Quality rum is distilled from sugar and its extracts. Anybody thought of a distillery for rum,, will attract excise, potential for export market, tourist market and local market rather than importing.
Just an idea but there is definitely a market outthere for molasses
They can feed them to livestock
sorry spell check not working should be COUNTRIES sell their molasses
maybe the water is brown because of flooding along the Kafue river and the LWSC is not treating / purifying the water properly before sending it to peoples taps ??????????????????????????????
Before you comment first you should be inform your self how water flows and which suspect must be implicated in this case. Water current does not flow upward but down ward and in this case nakambala and mazabuka are not part of these case.
I meant should inform yourself
Nakambala is down strem from where LWSC extracts its water from so SUSPECT is Kafue Sugar which up stream from the extract point of LWSC
But this Is a dull observation, does Molassses grow on trees, why don’t LWSC just go up stream and check for sugar factories bcoz we know it’s a byproduct of sugar, instead of wasting time….. So they even want to draw allowances for field work…., PA Zambia?
Manje uno monga tizadya iwe if we don’t draw allowances?
LT – Please go through the following quotation and do corrections. You are slowly becoming a fountain of spelling errors and this has already affected your corporate image if you have any.
‘In a satetement released to the media today , the the company said that its water surveillance unit has established that there was a high concentration of molasses that was being discharged into the Kafue River, hence polluting the water’
Come on LWSC be responsible, be on top of things and help Zambia attain its goal of access to clean water. “water is safe for consumption despite the color”. Are you serious or you want to see a city full of people with diarrhoea. What are you going to do to your clients who have already feasted on your pumped coloured water?
Goodness me, how can you ever hope for a healthy discourse when you have people imagining that they making intelligent posts yet they don’t even know in which direction water is flowing past Kafue, let alone in which areas the two principal sugar processing plants are – on this kafue river. These levels of ignorance are very frightening!
I would look into this organisation. Illovo Sugar Proprietary Limited.