Maputo, 20 Jul (AIM) – Mozambican Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane on Thursday pledged that the work on rehabilitating and expanding the Water Treatment Station (ETA) in Gurue, in the central province of Zambezia, will soon be completed.
When he visited the Gurue ETA, Maleiane expressed satisfaction at the rehabilitation. The job is budgeted at about 270 million meticais (4.2 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate), financed entirely by the Mozambican state budget.
The residents of Gurue district, he continued, will have safe drinking water in their homes, thanks to the effort made by the Government, which is seeking to provide water to all Mozambican communities.
He had come to the ETA, he said, because he was aware that, “apart from other, normal problems, this was the problem for the population of Gurue”. He pledged that, in the near future, water will flow from Gurue taps 24 hours a day.
The critical areas of the Gurue ETA, Maleiane said, include limitations on the management and treatment of the volume of water, which he linked to the population density of the district. The total population of Gurue is put at around 200,000.
ith the new ETA, the Prime Minister added, the distribution of water to citizens’ homes will be stabilized.
“The contractor has already promised that we shall have the system operational within a few days”, he said.
On Thursday, Maleiane began a five day working visit to Zambezia, as part of the government’s monitoring of implementation of the 2023 Economic and Social Plan.
He is also accompanying the activities under way to repair the social and economic fabric of the province, badly damaged by recent extreme climate events, notably tropical cyclone Freddy, which hit Zambezia in mid-March.
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