EDITORIAL: Stop this water wastage!

>Less than half of Dar es Salaam residents enjoy constant supply of piped water, and their pain of having to hustle for this key commodity is furthered by the knowledge that close to 60 per cent of the precious liquid that leaves the sources is wasted en route to the consumers.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Feb

EDITORIAL: Prioritise the water sector

>Media reports have it that sections of Dar es Salaam City have been without water for the past two weeks. This is yet more proof that access to water and sanitation remains low in Tanzania.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Mar

EDITORIAL: Water conservation crucial

World Water Day marked on Saturday was a poignant reminder that fresh water is increasingly becoming scarce around the globe, setting the stage for a doomsday scenario in the next few decades. Access to water is at the centre of conflicts in some parts of Africa, and this serves to underscore the magnitude of the problem and its potential to slowly but steadily spiral out of control.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Feb

EDITORIAL: We can stop carnage on our roads if we want to

>Is anybody safe on our roads?  This question inevitably came to the fore after Friday’s accident involving a bus and a saloon car that left five police officers dead near Dodoma Municipality.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Oct

EDITORIAL: Stop forced contributions

>A salary is the property of the person who earns it. Deducting any portion of it without their  approval is illegal and smacks of theft. Exceptions are appropriate ones like PAYE, social security  funds  and loan repayments.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Oct

EDITORIAL: Procurement watchdog should stop politicking

>Early, this year, the public procurement watchdog—Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA), announced it was probing the controversial $117 million tender to buy biometric voters registration kits (BVRs).

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Dec

EDITORIAL: Work together to stem needless loss of water

Reports that only 30 per cent of water treated and pumped by Kilimanjaro Water Supply Company Limited (Kiliwater) actually reaches consumers with the rest going to waste are representative of a problem that is prevalent in almost all urban areas.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Jan

EDITORIAL: Let’s go beyond arrests to make water woes history

>The arrest of 12 water thieves on Sunday in an operation led by the Deputy Minister for Water, Mr Amos Makalla, is most welcome, for it might awaken others of their ilk that we still have a working government, a thing that some might have been querying given the impunity which a few among us display at the expense of fellow Tanzanians

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Apr

EDITORIAL: Stop cheap propaganda on the Escrow scandal

>There has been a sustained campaign to mislead the nation since the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) and the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) completed their investigations--upon which the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) tabled its report in Parliament.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Jul

EDITORIAL: Stop the empty rhetoric and act on bombings now

>Following Monday’s bomb attack in Arusha, there have been conflicting statements from leaders whose job it is to protect Tanzanians. On Tuesday, top crime boss Isaiah Mngulu said Arusha and Zanzibar are targeted because the two towns are the favourite destinations of Western tourists.

 

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