People of Mzimba will soon have potable water after parliament unanimously approved a K22 billion loan for a comprehensive water and sanitation project. This means the government will now borrow K11 billion from OPEC European Bank repayable in 20 years and another K11 billion from the African Development Fund repayable in 40 years with a […]
Minister responsible for water Allan Chiyembekeza says there is now constant supply of water in Blantyre due to maintenance and upgrading of Walkers’ Ferry, Blantyre Water Board water pumping point on Shire River. Chiyembekeza, who is also minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, said the Walkers’s Ferry is now able to pump 98000 cubic metres of […]
Government has assured the nation that it is committed to meeting the international targets of halving the proportion of people without access to safe and clean water and improved sanitation by the year 2015 and the national targets of universal access by 2025. The remarks were made by the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water […]
People with physical disability in Malawi names water, sanitation and hygiene facilities as the most challenging things to access in their daily lives. Anecdotal results from Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Disability study done in Rumphi district in the northern part of Malawi by two English Universities and two Malawian universities, reveals that every […]
Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has blamed government’s laxity in responding to issues of clean and portable water and sanitation in Karonga district as women now are exchanging sex with the life saver liquid. Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati, recently urged Malawi women to remain vigilant and refuse […]
Come to think of it, nothing that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is doing should take anyone by surprise. At least not in Malawi. Because, when one recalls that era of“bad” laws, of fuel and forex shortages, of media unfriendly laws, of opposition and civil society bashing, of hoodwinking Malawians on a wide range […]
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital to drill boreholes .Yes you read it right! This is right at the centre of what we call our commercial city, Blantyre! The water situation in the city is so bad that a referral hospital has to drill boreholes to sustain hospital operations during the numerous times that the hospital doesn’t […]
When families in Mlenga Village, T/A Chikowi in Zomba district villages turn on borehole at shared water points, they receive clean water for drinking, cooking, washing, and bathing. This may seem unremarkable, but not too long ago, residents had been consuming contaminated water drawn from unprotected sources such as streams and wetlands. The change results […]
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (Cedep) are expressing great shock with what they say continued silence and failure by the Malawi government to address the devastating problem of water and electricity crisis in the cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe. The two cities have recently been hit […]
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 […]
Malawi’s premier mobile phone company, TNM today handed over a MK3.5 million water tank project to Ntcheu district hospital which aims to ease water shortage that the hospital has been experiencing over the years. Speaking during the handover ceremony at the hospital , TNM’s Commercial Manager, Allan Wittika, said the company was concerned with the […]
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 […]
Many patients at Zomba Central Hospital (ZCH have been left stranded after the health facility had its water cut off Thursday by the Southern Region Water Board (SRWB) over unpaid bills amounting to K13.5 million. The eastern region’s referal health facility has two accounts; one is for the main and has a bill of K9 […]
Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) has issued an apology to tap water users in the areas surrounding Malawi’s Capital for water shortage problem hitting the residents for the past three days saying this is largely because of electricity outage that the Board is experiencing at its main Treatment facility in Area 3. Residents has since Sunday […]
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 […]
Ntcheu District Hospital has suspended major operations and is referring all cases to Dedza and Balaka district hospitals due to erratic water supply in the district. Meanwhile, Ntcheu residents in central Malawi have given a 10-day ultimatum the Central Region Water Board (CRWB) to address erratic water supply that hit the district for the past […]
Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) has justified its move to adjust upwards its tariff structure by an average of 50 percent from K194 to K291 per cubic metre, saying it will improve service delivery. Executive director of Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama), John Kapito, questioned the board’s move to increase the tariffs, saying the rates are […]
The country’s consumers should expect to spend more on water usage as the country’s five water boards have hiked their tariffs with the proposed increments pending the minister’s endorsement. According to documents which Nyasa Times has sourced, the water boards namely Northern Region Water Board (NRWB), Lilongwe Water Board (LWB), Central Region Water Board (CRWB), […]