In yet another sign of incompetence and lack of willingness to reform in line with the current Civil Service Reform program, hundreds of residents are without water 7 days after Blantyre Water Board (BWB) disconnected it and failed to return for re-connection even after the affected customers paid a K3,500 re-connection fee. Several irate customers […]
Tired of poor services, empty promises and persistent water woes, Bangwe residents in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre, have given Blantyre Water Board (BWB) a seven-day ultimatum to restore continuous supply of clean water or face mass demonstrations. Early this year, BWB assured its customers that the problem would come to an end following the rehabilitation […]
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) has dismissed rumours making the rounds in Blantyre peri-urban areas that the currently supplied piped water is contaminated and not suitable for consumption. Normal water supply resumed in Blantyre city over the weekend after a fortnight of ‘dry taps’. However, rumours are creating fear among the city residents that the supplied […]
Public Relations Officer for the Blantyre Water Board (BWB) Priscilla Mateyu on Friday joined many residents of Blantyre in celebrating the resumption of tap water after two consecutive week of dry taps. Mateyu had to take the celebratory mood to Facebook after what she said “two antagonizing weeks” of trying to water down anger and […]
The Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) has threatened to take legal action against Blantyre Water Board (BWB) for misleading consumers and failure to address water supply challenges Blantyre city is currently experiencing. Cama has since demanded BWB to resume normal water supply with immediate. For the past two weeks, business has been on standstill in the […]
As Blantyre residents and surrounding areas are still battling with persistent water woes, some Blantyre Press Club (BPC) members have accused of Blantyre Water Board (BWB) spokesperson Priscilla Mateyu of telling ‘lies’ regarding water problems, and have since asked to stop posting “lies’ on BPC social forum. BWB has been assuring water users that water problems […]
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) says it is currently facing challenges to pump water to Blantyre and surrounding areas largely because of too much debris and mud at its intake point along the Shire River at Walkers Ferry. The BWB spokesperson Priscilla Mateyu says the situation has also been worsened by constant power failures at Chileka and […]
The Blantyre Water Board (BWB) have warned that residents of Blantyre and surrounding areas will likely to experience another acute water shortage problem from Tuesday due to the falling down of an Escom pole at the main water pumping station Walkers Ferry. The BWB spokesperson Priscilla Mateyu says in a statement on Monday evening that “due to heavy rainfall […]
Water crisis that has engulfed most parts in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre has adversely affected most households as instead of celebrating Christmas are seen running up and down searching for water as there is no water supply in their areas. Water users have now gone for at least four days without water, a development that […]
President Professor Peter Mutharika on Saturday said he is aware of the water challenges in Blantyre and assured that his Government is doing everything possible to solve the problem now. According to the State of the National Address the he delivered on Saturday, Mutharika said government is determined to make Blantyre Water Board (BWB) to […]
An expert on water and sanitation in Malawi, George Chaima is attributing the water problem facing the country to the government’s failure on issues of water management. Chaima a civil society organizations representative for Africa on Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) – a global partnership which works to a common vision id access to […]
The anticipated demonstrations by Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) on current water crisis slated for Thursday December 4th have been cancelled. Cama executive director John Kapito was expected lead a consumers’ march to Blantyre Water Board (BWB) where they wanted to hold vigils until their demands on water shortages are met. Kapito threatened to collect […]
Consumers rights activist, John Kapito has lambasted Member of Parliament for Blantyre City South, Allan Ngumuya for defending Blantyre Water Board’s inefficiency to provide water in Blantyre City. Kapito is on Thursday expected to lead consumers to demonstrate against BWB with Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) expected to present a petition to the utility provider on the […]
There is no end in sight to water woes in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre as the problem has resurfaced barely two days after the Blantyre Water Board (BWB) restored water supply in the city. Last week the city had no running water for four days and this forced Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital to suspend surgical […]
The country’s consumer and human rights activist, John Kapito has taken a swipe at Blantyre Water Board (BWB) for its inefficiency in improving water scarcity which has reached critical situation in the residential areas and surrounding townships of Blantyre. People especially women are walking long distances in search for water and most of them have resorted […]
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) has apologised to its consumers in and around Blantyre City for water outages. Queen Central Hospital, one of Malawi’s referral hospitals, is failing to carry out surgical operations due dry taps that have hit Blantyre hard. The commercial city has at least gone for four days without running water, forcing the […]
The ongoing shortage of water supply in Malawi has forced the country’s referral hospital Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) to suspend some of its operations. Residents living in and around Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre have been experiencing serious water shortage for five months after the water supplier Blantyre Water Board (BWB) said it was doing some […]
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) employees on Tuesday went on strike to demand the chief executive’s removal, whose tenure has been marked by several controversies . The workers blocked the entrance to the board’s head office, demanding government to relocate chief executive Andrew Thawe. They claimed Thawe is a “horrible” boss and they have had enough […]