Leader of opposition and president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lazarous Chakwera on Wednesday visited Area 18 residential estate and said the residents needs physcholical support after from the compensation they are demanding from Lilongwe Water Board and Lilongwe City Council (LCC) as they were made to consume water contaminated with sewage. Some residents of […]
About 20,000 households to will access clean and safe drinking water through an innovative Household Water Treatment and Storage product that’s being produced by Arkay Plastics Limited and SAFI with financial support from UK AID and UNDP through the Malawi Innovation Challenge Fund (MICF). The product, which was launched earlier this week in Blantyre, can […]
President Peter Mutharika said in Mzimba on Thursday during the launch of Mzimba Integrated Urban Water and Sanitation Project that his government is committed to ensuring Malawians have sustainable access to safe and potable water. Mutharika said the project in Mzimba is set to benefit about 42, 000 people from the township. The project is […]
People of Traditional Authority (T/A) Chimomboand Mbenjein Nsanje district have all the reasons to smile following the provision of solar-powered clean and portable water by Christian Aid in conjunction with Churches Action for Relief andDevelopment (CARD). Christian Aid in partnership with CARD and Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy (CEPA) are implementing a climate justice […]
The country’s water crisis remains sarcastic towards addressing waterborne disease with fresh revelation that about 7,000 household in Salima North-West Constituency are wrestling for one borehole. This is a typical example on how the water crisis has reached in the country after 53 years of the Malawi’s independent The visit to the area during the […]
The Malawi Salvation Army Church has equipped water point committees in Karonga with knowledge of how to care for and maintain boreholes. The Church hired experts to train the committees during a three-day workshop held in T/A Kilupula in the district. One of the trainers, water monitoring specialist Francis Mzumara, said the committees were trained […]
Baseflow, a team of water engineers in the country, has described the reality of access to safe and clean water in the country as unfortunate, saying those that call themselves “water professionals have a lot to answer for the state of water supply in Malawi.” Of all the social challenges Malawi is burdened with, Nyasa […]
Water supply projects have mushroomed all across the country for the past five years under all city and regional water boards. Some of these projects have been established in Chitipa, Karonga, Salima, Dowa, Dedza and Kasungu among others. One common factor with most of these projects is that they have been undertaken by foreign engineering […]
President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika pledged his government’s commitment to continue ensuring that provision of potable water remains first priority in its development endeavour. The Malawi leader said this Wednesday when he commissioned a multi – million Mangochi water treatment plant. He said government we will continue implementing projects that provide safe and potable water […]
President Peter Mutharika has said that Malawi will go ahead with the plan to drill poil and gas in the Lake Malawi, saying there is nothing to worry on aquaculture as well as human life. Mutharika, speaking on Wednesday in the Eastern Region lakeshore district of Mangochi during this year’s World Water Day commemorations, appealed to […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has justified the Value Added Tax (VAT) accrued to water saying without it consumers would be paying hefty bills for the utility to foot the suppliers’ production expenses. The Authority disclosed this at a national interface with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Lilongwe aimed at sensitizing the CSOs to enhance the […]
Government says it recognizes the importance of water and sanitation services to the overall socio-economic development of Africa. Minister of Agriculture Irrigation and Water, George Chaponda said this in Lilongwe Monday when opened the 75th African Water Association (AFWA) Conference. He said African governments need to strive in order to influence the direction of the […]
The Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) will re-open on Wednesday this week barely a week after the school was closed due to water problem. Last week the school was closed due to water scarcity, a situation which forced the students to go on the street protesting over the poor water supply. The school […]
A multi-billion dollar UNICEF funded project meant to provide safe and potable water in Karonga district through the provision of boreholes is mired in controversy almost four years after completion because in some areas the boreholes are not there. Where they exist, in places such as Lupembe and Mlare, they are either not completed […]
JTI Leaf Malawi on Wednesday launched a safe water program which will see company drilling 98 boreholes in nine districts where the company sources its leaf from in all the three regions. Speaking during the launch of the program at Kamphandira Village in TA Chilowamatambe’s area in Kasungu, JTI Leaf Malawi Managing Director Fries Vanneste […]
Malawi’s Non-Governmental Organisation, Water Aid, who partnered with the cyclists who are on a long cycling trip across the length of the country to raise funds to drill one borehole each in nine villages in nine districts, has pledged K7 miilion and is drumming support from other NGOs. The cyclists left Mzuzu on Tuesday 11th […]
The cyclists, who are on a long cycling trip across the length of the country to raise funds to drill one borehole each in nine villages in nine districts, have reached Chitipa on Saturday covering 1,169.20kms from Nsanje. The group of cyclists have two, Stewart Kambewa and Kwame Kayira, on the ground cycling and they started […]
The two Malawian cyclists, Stewart Kambewa and Kwame Kayira, who have embarked on a long cycling trip on Saturday from Nsanje to Chitipa and back to Blantyre (1,755kms) to raise funds for charity covered 162.96kms on day one from Nsanje to Chikwawa. They spent the night and at Dyeratu in Chikwawa and from 5am on Sunday, they started off […]