Tag Archives: Sanitation

Water for People in partnership with Agency For Sustainable Rural Transfomation (AFSRT), ICCO Cooperation and Kole District Local Government on September 7, 2016 commissioned a faecal sludge treatment plant to improve sanitation and create business opportunities especially for youth in the district. Kole district was specifically selected to benefit from this …

National Water and Sewerage Corporation aims to have every Ugandan village in urban centres connected to a safe source of water by 2020. Dr Silver Mugisha, the Managing Director of NWSC said the sh180 billion project that starts next year will see all of 60,000 villages connected. He revealed that …

NWSC: Corporation hits 105% collection efficiency as five year strategy gets into top gear Silver Mugisha (PhD), the managing director of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), is a soft-spoken and urbane man who doesn’t like to talk too much about himself.  He would however spend a day talking …

Over 170 participants from 26 countries are in Kampala June 20-23 for the Kampala Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) symposium 2016. It is the sixth sustainability forum of its kind, and the first to be held on the African continent. WASH Sustainability forums bring together hundreds of experts, government representatives, …

By Julius Odeke The African Water Facility offered a 1 million euro grant to the Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI) to support their Kawempe Urban Poor Sanitation Improvement Project (KUPSIP). The project is designed to provide affordable and sustainable sanitation services to over 100,000 urban poor living in the Kawempe …

By Julius Odeke Uganda is soon joining the rest of the other countries in celebrating the World Toilet Day that is in November 19, however, a report released by WaterAid says seven in ten women in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to a safe toilet, threatening their health and exposing …