Ohangwena addresses water woes
The Ohangwena Region continues to grapple with a shortage of water supply despite having access to an abundant underground resource.
This according to regional governor Walde Ndevashiya during his State of the Region address (SORA) this week.
"The region is facing a serious water supply situation, especially in constituencies in the eastern parts," he said.
Human right
At a roundtable discussion on the importance of water at Eenhana recently, Ndevashiya said the region has the resources to improve the livelihoods of people and underlined the need for the extraction of water from abundant underground sources.
At the same venue, deputy prime minister and international relations and cooperation minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said water is essential for human life and must be conserved for a future generation.
"Access to clean water is a fundamental human right and plays a role in achieving socioeconomic growth in rural areas, and it must be prioritised to ensure sustainable economic growth," she said.
Nandi-Ndaitwah said government has put in place comprehensive policies and programmes to provide safe and clean water to the communities.
"We must accept that we have managed to put water in many places in the country. However, there are still places that are not serviced," she stressed.
New projects
Ndevashiya said NamWater is implementing three bulk water supply projects in the region with the objective of providing water supply infrastructure to improve and increase water supply capacity of the Omafo-Eenhana and Omakango-Onambutu-Eenhana schemes to meet the 2037 water demand of the schemes.
He added that the project also aims to address the challenges of integrated water management and access to safe drinking water in northern Namibia, with a particular focus on the further exploitation and sustainable water abstraction from the Ohangwena Aquifer.
"Besides the financial challenges, the directorate of rural water supply and sanitation coordination is faced with challenges of vandalism of water infrastructures and unsuitable underground water in some parts of the region," he concluded.
This according to regional governor Walde Ndevashiya during his State of the Region address (SORA) this week.
"The region is facing a serious water supply situation, especially in constituencies in the eastern parts," he said.
Human right
At a roundtable discussion on the importance of water at Eenhana recently, Ndevashiya said the region has the resources to improve the livelihoods of people and underlined the need for the extraction of water from abundant underground sources.
At the same venue, deputy prime minister and international relations and cooperation minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said water is essential for human life and must be conserved for a future generation.
"Access to clean water is a fundamental human right and plays a role in achieving socioeconomic growth in rural areas, and it must be prioritised to ensure sustainable economic growth," she said.
Nandi-Ndaitwah said government has put in place comprehensive policies and programmes to provide safe and clean water to the communities.
"We must accept that we have managed to put water in many places in the country. However, there are still places that are not serviced," she stressed.
New projects
Ndevashiya said NamWater is implementing three bulk water supply projects in the region with the objective of providing water supply infrastructure to improve and increase water supply capacity of the Omafo-Eenhana and Omakango-Onambutu-Eenhana schemes to meet the 2037 water demand of the schemes.
He added that the project also aims to address the challenges of integrated water management and access to safe drinking water in northern Namibia, with a particular focus on the further exploitation and sustainable water abstraction from the Ohangwena Aquifer.
"Besides the financial challenges, the directorate of rural water supply and sanitation coordination is faced with challenges of vandalism of water infrastructures and unsuitable underground water in some parts of the region," he concluded.
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