SERIOUS WATER CRISIS HIT KAMANGA
A serious water crisis has hit Kamanga compound in Lusaka’s Munali Constituency, with the area not having the commodity for about three months now.
Lusaka Water and Sanitation Company had recently stated that it would commence water rationing in line with Zesco load shedding schedule.
However, the current load shedding crisis of more than 24 hours without electricity supply has worried residents in Kamanga who have since indicated that their lives are at risk as they are forced to wake up as early as zero four to go queue up for water at a communal tank.
Our staffer Francis Chipalo reports that the residents did not only cite security as a concern, but that their health has been compromised and risk having waterborne diseases.
Meanwhile, some residents complain that they have been forced to become vegetarians as butcheries are currently selling them rotten beef and meat products due to lack of electricity.
Meanwhile, a community leader and Munali aspiring member of parliament Chrispin Chiinda has appealed to relevant authorities to interven before the situation in Kamanga gets out of hand.
Chiinda says failure to address the water situation in Kamanga will lead to a disease outbreak.
“People are waking up as early as 04 in Kamanga to fetch water and they sometimes get attacked by junkies,” Chiinda said.
Chiinda appealed to government particularly the Ministry of Water and Sanitation to interven and consider taking water bowsers for Kamanga residents in the short term, as they find a lasting solution to the water situation affecting the residents.
Efforts to get a comment from Lusaka Water and Sanitation Company provide futile by press time.
By Francis Chipalo
Where there is no visionary leadership, people perish!
Load shedding should not be an excuse for Lusaka Water company!
It means people are paid for laziness in Zambia!
Don’t we have creative Water Engineers in Zambia?
Sixty (60) years after Independence, we should be boasting of redundance in overhead water reservoirs supplying water by gravity!
Why hasn’t Lusaka water invested in Industrial Generators to pump water when ZESCO power is out?
This is the lack of seriousness we have in almost all institutions run by blacks!
Give that company to a Muzungu and you will see how well it will be managed!
Let’s just admit we are backward in sustaining the Muzungu’s advanced way of doing things! There must be a terminal gene somewhere retarding progress!
Even the Hon. MP, where is he and what is he doing wherever he is? Is he not aware of the problem in his constituency? This habit of hiding from people when they need you most should stop, the MP and his Councilors should always be at hand to help the people in a crisis like this one. Water is life meaning that without water there is no life, we need quick response from the representatives of the people, that’s why they were elected. I also appeal to the Public Health Officers to ensure that fresh foods are properly preserved and stored in order to avoid disease outbreaks. Yesterday I bought some beef from ZAM-BEEF, the beef was simi rotten and I was not happy about it. Imagine we are just coming out of one of the severe Cholera crisis and if we are not careful, we shall go back to it again and many lives will be lost. We don’t seem to have learnt any lesson.