UK funding to put 2 million more on clean water supply

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Water supply agency proposed
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MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) proposed the establishment of a special fund or an agency that will deal with water supply in rural areas as a way of increasing efficiency. Some MPs, who were debating the Ministry of Water's annual budget estimates for the ...

The Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority (Tuwasa) here is planning to double its supply of water to municipality residents in a bid to curb the shortage of the resource which they have been experiencing for many years.

Availing ample and clean water for Tanzanians remains a critical problem even as we count only months ahead of 2015, the year by which, according to the UN-set Millennium Development Goals, at least 75 per cent of the people in every country should have access to clean and sustainable drinking water.

The world is marking Water Day at a time millions of people have great difficulty getting it. In Tanzania, WaterAid estimates that almost half the 45 million people do not get safe and clean water. Women and children have to walk more than two hours a day to look for it, rising to seven hours in remote areas.

CCM presidential candidate Dr John Magufuli has promised to upgrade the Urambo-Kaliua Road to the tarmac level.

A private water consulting and drilling company is asking local communities facing water scarcity to use its expertise to solve the problem.

>After 40 years of endurance, residents of Bwama Village in Kisarawe District, Coast Region, last week celebrated this year’s Water Week with song and dance as clean water began to flow from theirtaps.

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Clean water, connected classrooms
Chico News & Review
In communities nestled in the shadows of Africa's highest peak, snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, residents face a life-threatening problem: lack of water. In some cases, villagers in this area of northern Tanzania must walk miles to get water. In other cases, the ...

Mkinga, Muheza assured of reliable water supply
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CCM Union presidential running mate Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan has assured Tanzanians of clean and reliable water supply if her party is given the mandate to rule the country. Addressing an election rally in Muheza ahead of the October 25 general ...