Several areas in Kampala City are experiencing shortage of tapped water.
For
the last two weeks, residents of Nansana, Entebbe Road, Luzira,
Mutungo, Nsambya, Kira Municipality, Bombo Road and surrounding areas
have been getting irregular water supply.
The National
Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has been running messages on their
social media platform, attributing the crisis to power challenges at
their main plant in Ggaba, Makindye Division and shortage of water
boosters.
“Dear customers, we are experiencing power challenges at
Ggaba Water works. This has affected water production and supply to some
parts of Kampala. A team from Umeme is on ground and all is being done
to address the challenge and enable us resume operations at the plant,”
the NWSC message reads.
Some people took to social media, accusing
NWSC of incompetence. “Stop showing off, and connect water back to
Luzira. It is coming to a week with no water,” Ms Lilian Keishanyu
tweeted yesterday.
In response, NWSC said: “Dear
customers, as earlier communicated, we are experiencing high demand for
services in the city during this dry season. We are working on emergency
interventions to stabilise the network. Kindly bear with us.”
The
spokesperson of NWSC, Mr Samuel Apedel, said he needed to contact their
engineers to find out the problem and share the information, which he
had not done by press time.
NWSC stations are powered by Umeme. But Mr Stephen Illungole, the Umeme spokesperson, said: “I have talked to our engineers and they haven’t experienced any power problem on the line supplying the Ggaba water plant. The power supply is normal.”
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