Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
Lufwanyama district on the Copperbelt is experiencing challenges of poor water supply and sanitation services exacerbated by the drying up of a number of boreholes.
Speaking when Water Development and Sanitation Minister Mike Mposha paid a courtesy call on her, Lufwanyama district commissioner Justin Mwalikwa says the area has been experiencing challenges of clean and safe water supply for a long time now.
Mr. Mwalikwa says since 2012 when lufwanyama was declared a district it has never had piped water supply, a situation that is retarding economic development in the area.
He also expressed concern that new civil servants houses under construction in the district had no water supply.
Mr. Mwalikwa adds that the situation is even worse in the outskirts of lufwanyama where villagers were sharing water sources with livestock.
And Water Development and Sanitation minister Mike Mposha says water and sanitation projects are also being considered under the increased constituency development fund.
Mr. Mposha says his ministry has an increased allocation in the 2022 national budget and that more boreholes will be drilled in rural areas.
Meanwhile Chieftainess Shimukunami of the Lamba people of Lufwanyama has bemoaned the abandoned works at katembula dam.
She says the works were abandoned in 2018, a situation that has worried her subjects.
Chief Shimukunami says the completion of the dam will resolve water supply challenges the district is facing.
And Mr. Mposha who inspected the abandoned works has assured the traditional leader that government will look for money to complete works on the project.