Africa-Press – Botswana. Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) is owed P10.5 million in Chobe District.
Addressing a full council meeting in Kasane on Tuesday, Chobe District Council Chairperson, Mr Chimney Mululwani said of the amount P4.4 million was domestic debt, P4.1 million government debt, P1.3 Million business debt while P640 000 was owed by the Chobe District Council.
He appealed to the community, businesses, and government institutions to pay water bills on time as well as to use available self-service platforms.
Mr Mululwani said water supply from the new Kasane water treatment plant adequately met the demand for all eight villages connected to the reticulation system in Chobe.
However, he indicated that WUC experienced sporadic water interruptions due to pipe bursts in Kasane, Kazungula and Chobe which the corporation attended to expeditiously.
Mr Mululwani said Pandamatenga was the only village experiencing water supply woes due to low borehole yields as it was the only village supplied through underground water sources.
He said water Utilities Corporation had mitigated the challenge through continual water bowsing. Furthermore, the council chairperson said Kasane and Kazungula continued to face challenges of wastewater spillages due to a variety of reasons such as malfunctioning system and equipment and discarding of non-friendly objects into the waste-water system.
He noted that WUC continued to engage the community in outreach activities designed to disseminate information on the correct use of this sewerage system with the hope that over time these incidences would reduce as the community gained understanding of the mechanisms of the system.
He implored the public to desist from throwing and flushing objects like clothes, bottles, stones and wood down the system as this could affect the system.
Commissioned in December 2023, Kasane water treatment plant encompasses extraction of four million litres of water from Chobe River per day, a filter building, 32 million-litre-capacity clear water tank, a laboratory and chlorine station.
The plant incorporates technology advancement, technical and automated systems, mechanical telemetry that integrate digitization.
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