The News Review:
- J&K approves Rs 5.44 cr for water supply in Badgam
- The Dawn of Boreholes in Sierra Leone
- Chris Hani district to outsource water supply
J&K approves Rs 5.44 cr for water supply in Badgam
Economic Times – May 21, 2007
44 crore for Nilnag-Hafrooregional water supply scheme to augment drinking water facilities in about 16villages of the Budgam district. “Thescheme envisages construction of a 2. 5 lakh gallon capacity water treatmentplant to provide potable drinking water to about 26,000 people of thesevillages,” Minister for Public Health Engineering and Irrigation MohammadDilawar Mir said while addressing public gatherings at Nilnag, Hafroo Bataporaand Sogam on Sunday. Nilnag-Hafrooscheme is being executed under Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP)and would benefit people of areas like Nilnag, Goggipathri, Kotabal, Jaden,Hafroo, Kach Dub and Chowdhry Gund in tehsil Chodoora. Duringthe current financial year five more drinking water supply schemes, costing Rs7. 14 crore, in the tehsil are expected to be completed, he said adding, it wouldbenefit about 69,000 people of 49 villages. Also,three new water supply schemes, costing Rs 1…
5 lakh gallon capacity water treatmentplant to provide potable drinking water to about 26,000 people of thesevillages,” Minister for Public Health Engineering and Irrigation MohammadDilawar Mir said while addressing public gatherings at Nilnag, Hafroo Bataporaand Sogam on Sunday. Nilnag-Hafrooscheme is being executed under Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP)and would benefit people of areas like Nilnag, Goggipathri, Kotabal, Jaden,Hafroo, Kach Dub and Chowdhry Gund in tehsil Chodoora. Duringthe current financial year five more drinking water supply schemes, costing Rs7. 14 crore, in the tehsil are expected to be completed, he said adding, it wouldbenefit about 69,000 people of 49 villages. Also,three new water supply schemes, costing Rs 1. 74 crore, has been approved underARWSP for the area. Thewater supply scheme for Sogam and Dangerpora has also been approved underSawajal Dhara Scheme.
The Dawn of Boreholes in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times – May 21, 2007
as a result, rich people turned to alternative service providers such as tank supply services and the bottle vendors that are of high quality but very expensive. Those who cannot afford it turned to other alternative sources of potable water supply such as unprotected springs and streams flowing from the hills. Protection of springs, rain water harvesting and the abstraction and development of the ground water resources are some of the alternative sources of water supply. it is quite true that out country has huge surface and ground water resources that could be harnessed to alleviate this acute water problem in the city…
This is a big health advantage. It also has low vulnerability to drought. Congruently, the cost of development of this huge surface water resources of Sierra Leone, especially treatment and disinfection are very expensive that that of a borehole. This means we can turn to our groundwater resources for adequate, affordable, sustainable and immediate water supply services. In fact one sound ways of best management practice of our water resource is by conjunctive use of both our surface and groundwater. This simply means using developed surface water in the rainy season and groundwater in the dry season. Groundwater can be accessed or abstracted by digging or drilling into the ground to produce wells.
Chris Hani district to outsource water supply
Independent Online – May 21, 2007
Under a contract which went into effect on April 1, Amatola will provide water to the Engcobo, Emalahleni, Sakhisizwe and Intsika Yethu local municipalities, it said in a statement with the district municipality. “The intention of this is to deliver quality service and ensure efficiency and economy of service,” said Chris Hani municipality’s mayor Mafuza Sigabi. Part of the agreement governed the development of Small, Micro- and Medium-Enterprises (SMMEs) in water services to enable communities to maintain, manage and operate their own water schemes…
Amatola said it had opened a satellite office in Queenstown and had started recruiting in the area. It already serves most of the Amathole district municipality and parts of the Cacadu and Ukhahlamba district municipalities. Apart from providing bulk water, it also provides analytical services, operations and maintenance, and project implementing agent services.