Mozambique: Almost half the rural population of Tete province without access to water supply

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Mozambique: Almost half the rural population of Tete province without access to water supply

2:10 CAT | 11 Jul 2025

Photo: Conselho Executivo Provincial Tete

Nearly half of the rural population in Tete province, central Mozambique, lacks access to drinking water, the provincial governor admitted today, highlighting the need for investments to increase production capacity, including the construction of 600 new water sources.

In a statement released by Tete Provincial Executive Council, Governor Domingos Viola acknowledged the need to mobilize funds to build more water sources and improve the supply to the rural population.

Governor Viola therefore challenged the Provincial Directorate of Public Works to develop plans to improve this supply.

He also announced that the provincial government already has a plan to build more than 600 new water sources within the current five-year period, “in order to increase the drinking water coverage rate and reduce the occurrence of waterborne diseases”.

In August of last year, then-President Filipe Nyusi stated that 63.6% of Mozambique’s population already had access to drinking water, and that there was a need to strengthen this access through the construction of more dams, especially in the north of the country.

“At the beginning of my term, in 2015, access to drinking water was at 51%, that is, it supplied 12.6 million people, but when we Mozambicans numbered 20 million. With the implementation of several programs, most notably Água para Vida, the coverage level increased to 63.6%, benefiting approximately 20 million people by 2024,” Nyusi stated during the inauguration of the Pemba water supply system, in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique.

Source: Lusa