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RURAL WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION

MBARALI District Council in Mbeya Region during the year 2010-2014 of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program (RWSSP) is intended to carry out rural water supply and sanitation activities in 16 villages at the total cost of 8.316,875,000/- funded the World Bank (WB) it has been discovered. Speaking yesterday during an interview, District Water Engineer, Eng. Moses Msuya said the district was intended to carry out the following activities, drilling of four (4)boreholes to be fitted with submersible pump at Ubaruku, yala, Simike and Udindilwa. The construction/rehabilitation of 12 gravity piped water supply schemes at Chimala, Igurusi, Ukwavile, Mkunywa, Luhanga and Mpolo and one gravity scheme for Manienga, Itipingi, Kangaga, Matemela, Ipwani, and Mkandani villages. He noted that there is only 60 percent of all the resident of Mbarali District Council who are access to clean drinking water so far. Eng. Msuya further said that the district is going to construct three (3) de...

MAKESHIFT SWIMMING POOL

Climate Change, the parents in Iringa Muncipality have come up with makeshift swimming pools like this in the picture for their children to swim and cool the themselves during the hot and sunny days due to lack of availabilty of such facilities in the area have resort to such temperily swimming pool, as it was found these children swimming during the day today at NSSF Flats in Gangilonga area in the municipality, Iringa Region. It is suprising that Iringa is becoming very hot as days goes by and the weather is unpredicatable nowadays due the effect of climate change. Some of parents have advised the muncipal council to invest in swimming pools because there a lot foreigners visting the town but due to lack of swimming pool services in Iringa, they have to buy makeshift swiming pools for their children. They said they expected to find such services since there no ocean or sea in the area they would have come up swimming pools facilities hence improvement  of social amenties.