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vavlov
vavlov
7 years ago

US$500 million is outrageous, how was this cost arrived? Malawi is becoming a real cash cow for con-men, and believe it or not several political heavy weights will be beneficiaries of this money, and you will be lucky to have enough water. Has an EIA been done on the impact of reticulation of water from the lake at the estimated volumes?

mchisala
mchisala
7 years ago

Malawians you are being lied to: 50 million cubic meters of water/day translates to 18.25 cubic kilometers of water/year. According to a very reliable study by Tom Johnson, Lake Malawi’s water budget is 78.5 cubic kilometers of water/year (inputs: 38.5 km^3/year from rainfall, 40.2 km^3/year from river inflows; output: 65.2 km^3/year from evaporation and 13.8 km^3/year from river outflows), so what will be the effect of an additional output of 18.25 km^3/year from this broad-day robbery of a project?!

Falliot
Falliot
7 years ago

Go ahead, simbi, actually many Malawians are known to be subjective than objective… THEY are happy when they are called very poor country,,,,,,,,,,, they don’t even know the boundary between poverty and prosperity… That’s why they always want to talk about drawbacks, never shall they sit down and appreciate positive side of project…… Who don’t know that any project need money, yet they think simbi can bring water from lake Malawi to the uplands without money, they don’t know that Simbi now will enhance water cycle,,,,,,,water is a renewable resource. once its in the reservoirs, god is busy to create… Read more »

Risbon Konea
Risbon Konea
7 years ago

$500million is about 380 billion Kwacha. Thus 25% percent of national budget. For christ sake thus way alot, especially considering the level of corruption in Malawi. The deal doesnt sound better to me. The same money can establish 375 000 modern boreholes (assuming one borehole can cost up to MK1 Million which cannot even happen). So with 375 000 Boreholes, we can use this water for washing, irrigationg etc, and then leave the water from waterboard for drinking.

Ma***** anu amalawi, you cant think?? Dunderheads.!!!

PS17
PS17
7 years ago

Amalawi simuzatheka,ain’t u the same people who were saying lake Malawi isn’t being fully utilized ? pano ma projects akuyamba mwayamba kudandaulaso.

Bob
Bob
7 years ago

Malawians do you the Lake can sustain such ambitious projects. We already talk about green belt and its related irrigation projects, electricity down shire river, shire zambezi waterway, local use amongst thousands of people and businesses along it, then supply the whole capital city and its catchment areas. There are cheaper and more sustainable ways of supplying water to Lilongwe using that kind of money like localized ground pumps and protected water harvesting systems. We are already lamenting about climate change, environmental degradation etc. AMalawi lets think about what will happen in 10, 20 or 50 years to come. Plan… Read more »

bob
bob
7 years ago

Eeeh kaya nokha. Lake Malawi water for irrigation, electricity, shire Zambezi waterway and supply the whole Capital and its environs for domestic purposes while neglecting the much touted climate change and environmental degradation. Ndiye pali oil and gas exploration pompo. You guys are joking. For such amount of money there are better and cheaper sources of tapping water like underground drilling.

zuzo dekha
zuzo dekha
7 years ago

timva tangukhala chete

watermanager
watermanager
7 years ago

Government must do proper feasibility studies before embarking on this project. There is alot of money involved but it appears to be a very expensive way of taking water to the capital city. By the time we will say lets leave this thing because its expensive to run, our money will have gone. I dont remember having seen tender results for this project or adverts for bid invitation for this project in the papers. Recently we have also just seen the contractor donating motorcycles to police and a donating buildings within a short time followed by winning of this big… Read more »

Mondokwa
Mondokwa
7 years ago

Ha ha haaaa, Malawians and Kuba. Is Diampwe dam constructed and dry already that you need to be pumping water using electricity from ESCOM, the very escom bastards who are failing to power our fridges and reading light regularly! How many Chapondas we have this this god forsaken country!!!

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