Bring back our tap water

Many water authorities are grappling with crippling financial constraints as they seek to improve their services, which are way below the mark. Only a tiny fraction of the population actually gets piped water.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Dec

70 per cent of tap water in Moshi lost

>About 70 per cent of water produced by the Rombo-based Kilimanjaro Water Supply Company Limited (Kiliwater) is lost due to illegal connections, it has been learnt.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

17 Nov

Tap water in cemetery used for domestic consumption

Tap water in cemetery used for domestic consumption
Daily News
SOME residents in Central Kaloleni, Pangani and Levolosi wards in Arusha city have started drawing water for domestic use from a tap in the defunct Kaloleni cemetery. Amina Salum, a female guard who has been hired to guard a cellular phone tower ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Dec

Half of Dar tap water lost before reaching consumers: new report

>More than half of water produced for residents of Tanzania’s major commercial and port city, Dar es Salaam, is lost according to a new report released yesterday. The report further shows that only a small fraction of the people in the city have access to water produced by the public entity.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Dec

Sh2.1bn project to bring water to 10 villages

The Singida municipal council has spent Sh2.1 billion to implement water project which will benefit ten villages.  The implementation of the project, funded by World Bank, started in 2012.

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: 'We will bring the girls back'

Nigeria's president has vowed to find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants and return them to their families.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Should Kenya bring back its boys?

Kenyans start their own "Bring Back Our..." hashtag

 

10 years ago

GlobalPost

25 Nov

How a $1.42 billion project failed to bring water to this Tanzanian village

GlobalPost
How a $1.42 billion project failed to bring water to this Tanzanian village
GlobalPost
A women in the rural Tanzanian village of Mtumbatu pushes a bicycle loaded with water up a hill. (Shannon Jensen/The GroundTruth Project/GlobalPost). Editor's note: This is Part Two of a series produced by The GroundTruth Project for GlobalPost, funded ...

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Can campaign still bring girls back?

It has been three months since Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria.

 

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