Presidente da República, Filipe Nyusi, inaugura sistema de abastecimento de agua potavel no posto administrativo de Dombe, província central de Manica
Dombe (Mozambique), 23 Nov (AIM) – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday inaugurated a new water supply system in the Dombe administrative post, in Sussundenga district, in the central province of Manica.
In its initial phase, this system will provide clean water for more than 6,000 people in the four neighourhoods of the Dombe headquarters. This will eventually rise to 8,000 people.
Work on the system began in 2015. It started to operate, but was then destroyed by Cyclone Idai in 2019. Rehabilitation, and the opening of new water sources began in 2022, and the work was completed this month.
The system was budgeted at 35 million meticais (about 547,000 US dollars, at the current exchange rate), disbursed by the Mozambican government, with the support of the United Kingdom. The system was built under the National Rural Water and Sanitation Programme (Pronasar).
Dombe is a semi-arid region which faces serous water shortages. Thus, much of the Dombe population resorts to unsafe sources such as artisanal wells and the Lucite river. Some households are obliged to walk long distances to fetch water.
Nyusi said that in 2020 only six out of every ten people in Dombe had access to safe drinking water. Thanks to the new system, the number has now risen to between seven and eight out of every ten.
The President declared “our purpose is to serve the population. So we are mobilizing resources to provide more water facilities for Mozambicans. Many water systems are currently under construction”.
Nyusi urged his audience to take measures to prevent the spread of cholera. The disease is raging in Zimbabwe, which borders on Manica.
“Cholera is a dangerous disease and it kills people”, he said. “Let’s avoid cholera by washing foodstuffs properly, particularly those that are eaten raw. We cannot let the disease strike at our communities”.
“All of us should make this effort”, Nyusi stressed. “We have clean water here and we have the conditions to avoid the disease, if we practice individual and collective hygiene”.
(AIM)
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