Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Water and Sewerage Corporation has integrated tree planting to water treatment to improve declining water qualities around the country. The agency hopes the indigenous trees being planted around the water abstraction sources will naturally absorb some of the pollutants from agriculture, environment …
Read More »New UBTEB board chair promises to cut costs, transparency
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eng. Dr. Silver Mugisha, the new board chairperson of Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board –UBTEB has pledged to prevent unnecessary expenditure and transparency as he takes office. He said this during his inauguration at the Board Secretariat in Ntinda on Tuesday. Eng. Mugisha, who …
Read More »NWSC’s Mugisha replaces Baryamureeba as UBTEB boss
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eng. Dr. Silver Mugisha, the Managing Director National Water and Sewerage Corporation- NWSC is the new board chairperson of Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board –UBTEB. He was appointed yesterday by the First lady and Education and Sports Minister, Janet Kataaha Museveni, according to …
Read More »NWSC bags WORLDCOB service delivery award
San Francisco, California US | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has scooped the glory award at the World Confederation of Businesses (WORLDCOB) summit in California for its distinguished performance in utility management and capacity building. The Corporation’s Board Chairman Dr. Eng. Christopher Ebal was also …
Read More »Persistent Kampala water supply crisis to be resolved in 2020
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The current persistent water supply crisis for residents living East of Kampala city is now projected to end in 2020 when a new treatment plant will be switched-on in Katosi in Mukono district. The facility being built at 326.2 Billion Shillings will serve areas …
Read More »Kawempe hospital to pay UGX 24m for connection to sewer line
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kawempe National Referral Hospital will pay 24 million shillings to be connected to the main sewer line at Lubigi. When the Uganda Radio Network visited the hospital on Tuesday, workers were seen drilling and installing pipes, a move that is meant to solve the …
Read More »Kampala suffers chronic water supply crisis – Report
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala has been listed among cities with unaffordable, undrinkable and extreme water stress for their population. This is according to a report released today by the World Resources Institute, an American global research organization. The report indicates that the crisis has been largely ignored by …
Read More »Water use in business
Project finds most manufacturers in Uganda unaware of opportunities in efficient water use Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda easily qualifies as one of the most “water secure” countries in Africa. In the south of the country you find Lake Victoria, Africa’s biggest freshwater lake while the world’s longest …
Read More »Cesspool emptiers seek additional time to access treatment plants
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private cesspool emptiers want National Water and Sewerage Corporation- NWSC to allow them offload feacal matter at treatment plants beyond 6 pm. Emptiers dispose feacal matter at two sewage treatment plants, Lubigi Sewage Treatment Plant and Bugolobi Wastewater Treatment Plant both of which open …
Read More »NWSC petitions Attorney general as army hangs onto water treatment plant in Nakasongola
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Water and Sewerage Corporation-NWSC has petitioned the Attorney General for clarification on the failure by Luweero Industries Limited to handover a water treatment plant in Nakasongola district. National Water and Sewerage Corporation took over the water supply in Nakasongola town in June 2017. …
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