{"id":41544,"date":"2022-12-13T17:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/residents-puzzled-as-masaka-water-crisis-enters-third-week"},"modified":"2022-12-13T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:47:36","slug":"residents-puzzled-as-masaka-water-crisis-enters-third-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/residents-puzzled-as-masaka-water-crisis-enters-third-week","title":{"rendered":"Residents puzzled as Masaka\u00a0 water crisis enters third week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Residents of Masaka City have entered a third week without piped water.<\/p>\n

Water supply in the city got interrupted in the last week of November after one of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) main reservoirs at Nabajjuzi Swamp burst.<\/p>\n

Mr Emmanuel Nuwamanya, the NWSC Masaka branch manager confirmed the problem on Sunday but said \u201ctheir engineers have repaired the damaged reservoir and water supply will resume soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c…but we are unable to refill all our reservoirs due to the current power outages. We hope to sort out this problem in two to three days when there is stable power supply,\u201d he told Monitor<\/b>.<\/p>\n

By Tuesday afternoon,the water supply had not been restored.<\/p>\n

Mr Nuwamanya noted that the reservoirs help to balance the system network and reduce the cost of production.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we filled all the other reservoirs, water could easily flow to our clients homes by gravity but this is not the case,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

NWSC supplies 230,000 cubic metres of water every month in Masaka and sells about 175,000 cubic metres with an average billing of Shs900m,according to Mr Nuwamanya .<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, a total of 55,000 cubic metres are lost to leakages which take time to be fixed due to low man power,\u201d he observed on December 13.<\/p>\n

The current water crisis has raised a lot of concerns among city dwellers, mainly those whose businesses require high water supply.<\/p>\n

Mr Aron Mufumbira, an attendant at Lubega\u2019s Washing Bay, in Kijjabwami said the water crisis has almost doubled their daily operational budget.<\/p>\n

“We are buying water expensively -from vendors- which is eating into our profits ,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n

Currently, a 20 -litre jerry can of water in Masaka City centre costs between Shs400 to Shs700 unlike in the past where a jerry can was costing Shs100.<\/p>\n

Some of the villages experiencing water shortages include Kimaanya, Bwala , Kumbu ,Soweto Zone ,Bata Cell ,Gayaza ,Katwe ,Kizungu and Mutuba Gardens .<\/p>\n

An engineer with NWSC who preferred anonymity to speak freely about the crisis said the current problem is partly exacerbated by dirty rain run-off water which poured into Nabajjuzi swamp where they draw water from.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe downpour experienced in the last couple of weeks affected us as well .We therefore had to leave the water to concentrate other than pumping dirty and contaminated water which could be dangerous to our customers,\u201d he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Residents now want NWSC to rescue the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are spending much time looking for water and NWSC has not come out to explain what led to this crisis,\u201d city resident Sulaiman Sebunya said.<\/p>\n

Currently, NWSC has 1, 2700 customers in the Masaka area which covers parts of Kalungu District. The NWSC customer base in Masaka is largely domestic at 83 percent, commercial at 12 percent, public standpipes at 2 percent while institutions stand at 3 percent.<\/p>\n

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