New water supply system for Namige

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New water supply system for Namige

8:39 CAT | 28 May 2018

Photo: Domingo

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Saturday inaugurated a new water supply system in Namige, capital of Mogincual district, in the northern province of Nampula.

The new system cost 39.3 million meticais (about 647,000 US dollars, at current exchange rates) and has been designed to supply water to 20,000 people. Currently 7,500 people are connected to the system. Further investment at the source where the water is impounded, about four kilometres from the distribution centre, could allow the system to cover 40,000 people.

Prior to Mozambican independence, in 1975, Namige had a small water system that supplied fewer than 1,000 people. The population of the town has swollen to about 30,000.

Addressed the Namige residents who attended the inauguration ceremony, Nyusi recalled “the last time I came here you presented the problem of water supply and I said it would be one of the priorities of the government programme. Today I am inaugurating a new system for 20,000 people”.

He urged the residents to take good care of the system, which is managed by a private operator.

The system was financed by the British government’s Department for International Development (DfID), and by Mozambique’s own National Rural Water Supply and Sanitations Programme (PRONOSAR).

Mogincual district is on the Nampula coast, and so fishing is one of the main activities by which local people make a living. Nyusi held a meeting with Mogincual fishermen and also visited an exhibition of agricultural and fisheries produce.

Source: AIM