Kansenene residents decry lack of water.
Kansenene residents decry lack of water.
By Gilbert Rwaheru 19/11/2013
Kabarole
Residents of Kanseneene village-Rwengaju parish-Busoro
sub-county-Kabarole district are crying to Kabarole district Local
government to provide them with clean water as the area is suffering
with dirty water.
Rwaheru Gilbert co-ordination Kichwamba forum for
development and service delivery advocacy group revealed that the area
is lacking clean and safe water.
He said residents get water from rivers and natural wales which is not clean and healthy for human consumption.
He said this has caused disease like typhoid among other to the local residents in the area.
Rwaheru says a village with estimated of a round 200 families survive
on dirty water and this has increased expenditure on medicines by the
poor local families.
Students in the area also don’t go to school
frequently due to poor water since they are sick all the time of fever
and worms caused by dirty water.
Kansenene is one of the village’s in Rwengaju Model village which was named by president Museveni.
“I wonder how such a model village lacks clean water, there have been
promises of extension of gravity water flow but no action has been taken
“says Rwaheru
He call on the leaders to come in for intervention.
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