National water &sewerage cooperation improves water supply in Sembabule

National Water and Sewerage cooperation has completed the Water Supply Improvement Project in Sembabule Town and the surrounding areas where residents are now receiving reliable water supply services.

When NWSC took over the Sembabule water supply operations in April 2016, the existing system was inadequate and needed to be revamped to improve supply in the water stressed areas and to meet the growing demand for services in the district at large.

Previously, the old Plant was supplying about 300,000 litres per day.

In addition to the inadequate water produced, the existing systems experienced frequent pipe bursts, system vandalism among other challenges.

To address the above challenges, NWSC, in the Financial Year 2018/19 initiated a project for the improvement of water supply services in Sembabule.

Detailed designs were undertaken, and construction works commenced in August 2020 using internally generated resources.

The construction works have been completed in a space of one year, and the Plant is now fully operational.

The newly completed project has a production capacity of 3 million litres of water per day.  This is sufficient to meet the water supply needs of Sembabule and the surrounding areas up to the year 2040.

Area Mp Shartsi Musherure joined the NWSC board member  Josephine Kasya during the visiting of the new water treatment plant

This has given the people of Sembabule a reason to smile since they can now get water supply 24/7.

As part of the project works, a new 1 million litres per day capacity tank, 3 booster Stations, 3 new 100,000 litre capacity tanks, over 70km of pipelines, and a new Administration office, among others, have been constructed.

With the new infrastructure, water supply reliability for over 170,000 residents of Sembabule Town, Lwebitakuli, Miteete, Mateete, Kabundi, Lutunku, Kyabi, Bisheshe, Lugushulu, among others, is now guaranteed.