Customers of Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) are expected to migrate from post-paid to prepaid billing system by the year 2024, officials have said. This follows the installation of prepaid meters since 2019. Most customers in Mzuzu City migrated to the new system. NRWB Public Relations Manager Edward Nyirenda disclosed that they are expecting to […]
President dent Lazarus Chakwera has appointed Florence Nthakomwa, independent candidate for the November 10 by-election in Karonga Central Constituency, as board member of the Northern Region Water Board (NRWB). Nthakomwa boycotted UTM party primaries and resolved to go solo citing unfairness on the part of the district committee in the way they handled the whole […]
Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources Nancy Tembo has commended the Northern RegionWater Board (NRWB) for its untiring efforts that people have access to potable water Board by improving levels of access from 62 percent to 90 percent in 2020 for the major towns in the north. Tembo said despite numerous challenges the NRWB is […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) chief executive officer Titus Mtegha says construction works for the much anticipated $26.7 million (about K19 billion) Karonga Water Supply Project is expected to start this October. The project will upgrade the water treatment plant from the current production of 12 million litres to 31 million litres per day and […]
Mzuzu City residents will soon benefit from a Water Efficiency Project worth about K25 billion which is aimed at boosting water supply in the city and its surrounding areas. Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) chief executive officer, Titus Mtegha said this in an interview. Mtegha said the project, which will be financed by the European […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) says it has installed 8000 prepaid meters in its supply areas in its first phase of the project which commenced in December 2019 to June 2020. In an interview on Thursday, NRWB Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Engineer, Titus Mtegha said the board was pleased that customers have welcomed the initiative. […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) has urged people in Karonga District to continue practising hygiene and sanitation in public places and adhere to coronavirus (Covid-19) precautionary measures. NRWB zone manager (North) Stanford Msongole made the remarks on Friday when the water board donated 25 refuse bins worth K2 million to Karonga Central Market. He said […]
Northern Region Water Board says it has suspended its water disconnection campaign over unrealistic water bills which sent customers crazy. Northern Region Water Board public relations officer Edward Nyirenda has confirmed the suspension of the disconnection campaign. “This is due to technical glitches that our new billing system is facing,” said Nyirenda. Some customers had […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) has admitted that it is over charging its customers on the water that it supplies. The admission follows complaints that were recently raised by some affected customers at the water board’s head office, at Kawiluwilu House in Mzuzu. One of the complainants from Katoto Township, Juliet Banda said she gets […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) has appealed for chiefs’ support during the implementation of the K19.4 billion Water Supply Project set to benefit rural and urban communities. Briefing the district executive committee (DEC) on Tuesday, NRWB assistant community mobilisation and training officer Jean Silumbu said chiefs are important stakeholders; hence, their participation is beneficial to […]
President Peter Mutharika has committed that government will be providing safe water to everyone as well as good road network to promote development in the country as he commissioned Karonga Town Water Supply System and Karonga-Songwe Road. Mutahrika launched the Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) project at Kibwe Primary School ground in Karonga. The project, […]
President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday inaugurated a K17 billion- Mzimba- Integrated- Urban -Water and Sanitation Project which was implemented by Northern Region Water Board (NRWB). Speaking at Munjiri Community Day Secondary School Ground after commissioning the project, Mutharika said the newly inaugurated water supply system will address water challenges Mzimba Urban used to face. The […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) is replacing prepaid billing water meters with postpaid ones following a breakdown of the board’s prepaid vending system. In a recent notice issued on its Facebook page, the board advised customers to use fire mode triggering methods which works only for six hours by pressing a button attached to each […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) customers in the lakeshore district of Karonga say they will stage a demonstration soon to lay bare their frustrations regarding the manner in which the government owned utility company treats them. The demonstrations, which are going to be spearheaded by one of the district’s vocal civil society organizations (CSOs)—Karonga Youth […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) Friday handed over a 200 capacity classroom block it constructed at Rumphi Secondary School to the tune of K 42 million as part of its corporate social responsibility. NRWB’s Chairperson, Reverend Howard Matiya Nkhoma handover the classroom block Sunday at the school. He said the board felt it necessary to […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) says it has collected revenue amounting to K700 million in three months following deliberate initiatives the water board launched last year (2017). In October last year, the utility body unveiled Chipopoma cha Kawiluwilu and Rapid Results Approach (RRA) 100-days initiatives to boost revenue collection as well as data gathering. NRWB […]
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) has set to expand coverage of water supply in Karonga in order to widen access to safe and portable water to communities in the district. The project dubbed Karonga Water Supply Project has been earmarked to commence this August 2018 beginning from Pusi and Kapolo in the north as well […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika has faulted Malawians who branded northern region as ‘Dead North’ describing them as leaders without vision for the region. Speaking Tuesday in Chitipa during the commissioning of Chitipa Water Supply System, Mutharika said even northern region deserves meaningful development. He said his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is evenly spreading development […]