By Staff Reporter
Despite being remote, Nsanje district is not out of site and reach of Chakwera’s Adminstration Development Agenda.
On May 12, 2022, Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation John Bande inspected two World Bank funded water projects that are being implemented in the southern border of the district.
The projects are expected to benefit 15000 households in the district.
In his speech, the Deputy Minister said Nsanje’s Chididi and Tengani are just examples of many areas in Malawi which have for the past years lagged behind in water and Sanitation infrastructure.
He said President Lazarus Chakwera established the Ministry of Water and Sanitation to ensure that potable water is available to every Malawian by 2030 and that the Ministry is committed to make this achieved.
One of the project which is implemented under the Malawi Resilience and Drought Recovery Mitigation Project ( MRDRMP) aims at rehabilitating some of the gravity fed piped water supply schemes and drilling new boreholes in Nsanje, Thyolo, Neno, Chikwawa, Blantyre, Mwanza, Mangochi, Machinga, Balaka, Ntchewu, Nsanje and Zomba districts.
Clean water is vital for a healthy population. In Malawi, 80% of the population has access to an improved source of drinking water, but that leaves about 4 million people who still lack access to safe water.
Additionally, only six percent of the population has access to an improved sanitation facility. Poor sanitation practices and improper storage of drinking water commonly lead to waterborne illnesses such as cholera.
