ARUSHA may be a city but soon the urban centre may soon become a fountain which churns out over 200 million litres of water on daily basis, one of the highest in the country yet.
Presenting a report on the proposed
grand water project for the city and its environs, the Managing Director
for Arusha Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority, Engineer Ruth
Koya said her authority is to start with the drilling of more than 56
deep water wells.
The wells’ drilling works are to be
executed by AUWSA through the Korea Engineering Consultants Corporation
of South Korea, in Association with Chell Engineering Company Limited
from China and Tanzania’s own DOCH Limited.
The contract to that effect was inked
between the Arusha Urban Water Authority (AUWSA) and the three firms was
signed on transparency basis at the Central Market open grounds in
Bondeni Street of Arusha as hundreds of the city residents watched.
According to the Minister for Water and
Irrigation, Eng Isack Kamwelwe who graced the signing ceremony; “This is
a project to cater for Arusha Residents and therefore all people need
to witness it being signed so that they may feel to be part of the
project and thus take total control of the water project including
helping to protect the facility,” he said.
The official report from Arusha Urban
Water Supply and Environment Sanitation Authority indicate that the
project starts with eleven wells to be drilled among other areas;
Magereza, Tengeru, Mbuguni and Usa-River in Arumeru District, Arusha
Region, as well as Maji-Moto in Hai District of Kilimanjaro.
At the moment AUWSA produces 40 million
litres of water per day against its daily needs of more than 95 million
litres -- which means there is shortage of 55 million litres.
The Government is bankrolling an
ambitious water scheme for Arusha City and its suburbs to the tune of
nearly 500 billion/- through this project which is to run for the next
four years with financial support from the African Development Bank.
The Arusha Sustainable Urban Water and
Environment Sanitation Delivery Project is to be executed at the cost of
$234 million (0.5 trillion/-) -- expected to triple the city’s water
consumption from the current 40,000 cubic meters to over 105 cubic
meters per day.
The existing clean water pipes network
measures just 312km in to tal but the new project will expand this to
nearly 580km of service lines. The amount of water loss, especially
through daily leaking, would also be cut down from 40 to 20 percent.
Arusha City plus its environs has
slightly more than 500,000 permanent residents, but those currently
covered under the AUWSA water services average at 325,000 but the new
scheme will see that the number of beneficiaries double to 600,000 which
means almost every person in town will be served to a surplus
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