By Kulihoshi M | Coordinator
Still people in various parts of Kalemie City do not have access to clean water in order to survive Cholera
The Democratic Republic of Congo Government liberalized the Water sector and this gave opportunity for the private sector to invest in water, however in Kalemie city there are still very actors investing in the water production industry.
Lack of access to clean water is very first cause of Cholera which has claimed lives in Kalemie. The very existing local initiatives are based on water drilling which also highly depend on the availability of the electricity which is also not always there.
In Kankomba Avenue for example there are only two water drilling stations which offer water to more than 3,000 people. Here in order to get water, you may spend at least 4 to 5 hours per day. Women are more particularly the most victims because they have no time to engage in income generating activities because most of their time is used on looking for water.
We have not yet made a progress in this campaign in order to provide people with water and the situation is not good because the period for Cholera outbreak is soon coming.
The only private water Drilling in Kankomba
The picture below if the only water drilling which produces water for few people, we visited this initiative and the owner told" I started this initiative when I saw how my wife and the children were suffering in order to get water, they could wake up at 4am just to look for water and what they will get will not be enough for the whole family. Now I opted to also share it with people in this place and as you can see it is the only one here. We can only produce 5,000 Ml of water as per now which is not enough enough, there is a high demand but I'm not able to offer people water, I have tried to invest what I had in this, I know it is not yet enough but that is what I was able to do.
I have yes the desire to do more, and invest more in this water drilling so that I can offer all people water in this avenue but I do not have the necessary money which can help to do what I need to do, may other people should also do sometung so that we can solve this problem. But if you give me more money I can improve and people will be happy here"
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