WATER SECTION

WATER SECTION

INTRODUCTION

Mandate for water and sanitation service delivery

The government of Uganda aims at improving the quality of Life of Ugandans through provision of safe water and improved sanitation. In the Water Ssector, districts have a primary responsibility for the construction of water facilities/points in rural areas and to support the Ooperation and Mmaintenance (O&M) of water services as well as ensuring protection of the natural environment.

Districts, as well as Municipalities and urban councils, are also responsible for the development, management and operation of urban water services, apart from those managed by the National Water and Sewerage Corporation, although construction of facilities is typically funded from central government projects, such as the Water and Sanitation Development Facility. Mandates for sanitation and hygiene are shared between the Water, Education and Health sectors while Environmental protection is done in liaison with the Environment sector. The O&M of rural water facilities is largely based on the Community Based Maintenance System (CBMS), which emphasizes community participation in the development and management of water facilities. Promotion of community based management is done in liaison with the Community Development department.

Funding

Most of the funding for water and sanitation activities comes from the annual District Water supply and Sanitation Development Grant (DWSCG).

Water and sanitation development partners

Non-governmental organizations that are working with Kamuli DLG in water & sanitation development in the FY 2020/2021 include: -

  • Plan International Uganda
  •  International Development Institute (IDI) Uganda
  • Kibo group
  • Busoga Trust
  • Iowa State University Uganda Program (ISU-UP)

Other partners included: -

  • National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC)
  • Eastern Umbrella of Water and Sanitation (EUWS)
  • Unicef
  • Whave Solutions

District Rural Water and Sanitation Objectives.

To provide sustainable safe water supply and sanitation facilities based on management responsibility and ownership by the users within easy reach of 85% of the rural population by the year2026 with at least 95% effective use and functionality of facilities

 

ANALYSIS OF THE DISTRICT WATER AND SANITATION SITUATION

General water supply situation

Kamuli district is generally flat with no potential for springs. Its population depends on boreholes as the main source of safe drinking water. All villages in the rural sub-counties of the district are served with at least a Hand-pumped water source which is either a shallow well (< 30m deep) or a deep borehole (30m deep) but much is being done to ensure that every village has at least a deep borehole. Construction of more shallow wells was halted since they get easily contaminated especially in the rainy season and most of the water stressed areas have no potential for shallow wells. Generally, areas with low groundwater potential include parts of the sub counties of Kagumba, Balawoli, Namasagali and Nabwigulu while areas near river Nile have got salty water.

Kamuli district is also served with piped water supply technology. There areeight piped water supply systems namely: - Namwendwa, Kasambira, Bulopa, Kasolwe, Nankandulo, Kisozi, Mbulamuti and Kamuli water supply. The last three water supply schemes are under the management of National Water & Sewage Corporation (NWSC)while the first three water supply schemes are managed by Eastern Umbrella of Water and sanitation. Nankandulo and Kasolwe water supply schemes are managed by Water & Sanitation Committees.Apart from Mbulamuti water supply system that gets water from River Nile (surface water), all the other water supply systems have production wells (ground water) as their source of water. Kasolwe water supply has no distribution network i.e. it only has a Kiosk/Pump house with four taps. Rural Growth Centres (RGCs) served with piped water [(mainly Public Stand Posts (PSPs)] extended from existing schemes include: - Mukokotokwa, Kiyunga-Kisozi, Bulamuka, Namaganda-Kisozi, Lwanyama, Magogo, Bupadhengo, Nawanyago, Naibowa, Butansi. They are managed by NWSC.

 s and poor groundwater potential which results into lower than average success rates for drilled bore hole.

Access to safe rural water supply

The safe water coverage for the district is 75%, considering the projected rural population of 462,514 people, 1,163 hand-pumped water sources in use, 1237 yard taps and 47 public taps. This is the percentage population accessing safe water assuming that each hand-pumped water source serves 300 people, each yard tap serves 6 people, each PSP (or public tap) serves 150 people and the computed population served in a particular Sub-county cannot be more than the projected population of the Sub-county.

This safe water coverage data includes all safe water sources constructed by Government of Uganda and other partners but excludes water sources in towns managed by NWSC.See table 1.

Access to improved sanitation facilities.

The latrine coverage and Hand Washing coverage in the district (rural and urban) are 80% and 44% respectively, considering 109432 Households in all the Sub-Counties. See table 2.

 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FUNDED BY CONDITIONAL GRANT IN THE FY 2020/2021

  • Construction of 25 deep boreholes (ongoing, see table 3).
  • Construction of one mini solar-powered piped water system at Bugobi in Kasozi parish in Namasagali Sub-county (ongoing)
  • Rehabilitation of 20 boreholes (done in quarter two)
  • Construction of two public latrines in Balawoli and WankoleS/Cs (on going in Nawandyo and Balawoli Town).

INTERVENTIONS BY OTHER WATER AND SANITATION DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DURING THE FY 2020/2021

International Development Institute (IDI) -Uganda

Service Area: -

  • IDI works in 5 Sub-counties in Kamuli district and in 3 schools per sub-county thus a total of 15 communities. The Sub-counties are Namwendwa, Kagumba, Magogo, Nawanyago and Bugulumbya.
  • WASH (water, sanitation & Hygiene) project concentrates on construction of Boreholes and Latrines.
  • Achievements by the end of quarter two of the FY 2020-2021:
  • Construction of one Pit latrine with 4 latrine stances and 1 changing room at each of three schools namely: - Bukusu p/s in Nawanyago s/c, Kiige p/s in Kagumba s/c, Matuumu CoU p/s in Magogo s/c.

National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC)

No new developments due to lack of resources, however, Kiwolera Production borehole was commissioned as another source of water for Kamuli water supply.

Kibo Group

Recent developments.

  • One borehole with a yield of 2.5m3/h was constructed at Kiseege village in Ndalike parish Namwendwa s/c in December 2020.
  • In order to curb environmental degradation, an innovation of a wall fence was applied at Kiseege borehole. A similar fence was earlier constructed at Bulondo borehole in Naibowa.

 Iowa State University Uganda Program (ISU-UP)

Achievements by the end of quarter two of the FY 2020/2021

  • Locally designed and fabricated HWFs and distributed them to primary schools in Butansi and Namasagali S/c.
  • Major repair of Nakanyonyi borehole in Butansi s/c and Bususwa borehole in Namasagali s/c.

MWE/Woman MP-Kamuli

Achievements

The MP lobbied for 30 boreholes; siting was done for all, 26 were drilled of which 13 had so far been installed with hand-pumps.

Busoga Trust:

Rehabilitated 8 deep boreholes

 Plan-Uganda

Achievements by the end of quarter two of the FY 2020/2021.

  • Six boreholes were drilled and installed with Hand-pumps (Bulopa-2, Namasagali-1, Kitayunjwa-1, Nabwigulu-1, Mbulamuti-1).
  • Siting for 5 other boreholes was done in five government-aided primary schools in Balawoli and Kagumba S/Cs.

Ministry of Water & Environment (MWE)

Some of the ongoing activities include: -

  • Construction of solar-powered piped water system for Kavule in Namasagali Sub-county.
  • Design of piped water system for Kagumba - Buduuma.
  • Feasibility study for construction of mega piped water system for Kamuli using R.Nile as the water source.

 Attachments;

Table 1:  Safe water coverage per sub-county by the end of December 2020

Sub County

Population (2014 census)

Projected population 2020

Number of sources

Population served

% served at 100% functionality

Hand-pumps

Spring

DRWT

Yard tap

Public tap

Nabwigulu

21,987

25,558

53

 

 

0

0

15900

62.2

Balawoli

22,013

25,588

51

 

0

0

0

15300

59.8

Kagumba

32,285

37,528

55

 

 

0

1

16350

44.4

Namasagali

37,563

43,664

86

 

0

0

0

25800

59.1

Butansi

29,570

34,373

96

0

 

0

4

29400

85.5

Kitayunjwa

40,087

46,598

138

0

 

0

2

41014

88.0

Namwendwa

57,606

66,962

136

0

 

400

9

44250

66.5

Bulopa

28,909

33,604

67

0

 

285

3

22260

66.2

Bugulumbya

36,281

42,173

137

0

 

541

6

42077

99.8

Wankole

19,988

23,234

82

0

 

0

0

23234

100.0

Nawanyago

23,839

27,711

79

0

 

5

2

24030

86.7

Kisozi

17,361

20,181

52

0

 

0

7

16650

82.5

Magogo

22,077

25,663

60

0

 

6

10

18748

73.1

Mbulamuti

18,432

21,426

71

0

 

0

4

20161

92.7

Total

407,998

474,262

1163

0

0

1237

48

366822

75.0

 

Table 2: Latrine and Hand washing coverage in Kamuli district

HSD

Sub County

No. HH

# HH with  Latrines

Latrine (%)age

# HWF

HWF (%)age

BUZAAYA

KISOZI

 6,624

5,564

84%)

 2,120

32%

MAGOGO

3654

 2,448

67%)

 548 

  15%

NAWANYAGO

4068

 3,051

75%

 1,342 

  33%

WANKOLE

 5,316

4,223

79%

 1595 

30%

MBULAMUTI

7297

 6,348

87%

2554

35%

BUGULUMBYA

7,906

 6,934

88%

 4,032 

51%

Sub Total

 

   34,865

28,568

82%

 12,191 

43%

BUGABULA SOUTH

NAMWENDWA

9953

7546

76%

 2,787 

28%

KITAYUNJWA

7668

6780

88%

4000

52%

BUTANSI

6187

4850

78%

 1299 

21%

BULOPA

 4,742

 3,225

68%

 1898 

40%

Sub Total

 

28,550

 22,411

78%

 9,984

45%

BUGABULA NORTH

NABWIGULU

5174

4,006

77%

 1,099

21%

NAMASAGALI

7531

 6,552

87%

 3,540

47%

BALAWOLI

5877

5513

94%

3,467 

59%

KAGUMBA

6,613

 4,575

69%

 1,983 

30%

Sub Total

 

  25,195

 20,646

82%

10,089

49%

KAMULI MC

NORTHERN DIV.

10,124   

   8,212 

81%    

4,374

53%

SOUTHERN DIV.

10,698   

7,817 

74%   

 1,698 

  22%

Sub Total

 

20,822   

16029 

77%   

 6,072 

38%

GRAND TOTAL

 

88,610

71,625

80.8%

32,264

36.4%

 Table 3: Beneficiaries of new boreholes for the FY 2020/2021 funded by DWSCG

No.

Sub county

Parish

Village

Remarks

1

Bulopa

Nagamuli

Buganza

Successfully drilled

2

Bulopa

Bukuutu

Butonti

Successfully drilled

3

Bulopa

Mpakitoni

Kabanda II

Successfully drilled

4

Namwendwa

Kinu

Busuyi Bubanda

Successfully drilled

5

Namwendwa

Ndalike

Ndalike T/C

Siting done

6

Kitayunjwa

Butende

Buleri - Bubanda

Successfully drilled

7

Kitayunjwa

Nawango

Buwaya

Successfully drilled

8

Kagumba

Kasolwe

Bugulu

Siting done

9

Kagumba

Kiige

Bugobi

Siting done

10

Kagumba

Kagumba

Nabitalo ‘A’

Siting done

11

Kagumba

Kagumba

Mawembe

Siting done

12

Namasagali

Bwiiza

Bunabiryo

Successfully drilled

13

Butansi

Bugeywa

Buyoga

Siting done

14

Butansi

Naluwoli

Butansi HC III (Kantu)

Successfully drilled

15

Butansi

Naluwoli

Tibwamulala

Siting done

16

Bugulumbya

Busanda

Butomasi

Successfully drilled

17

Magogo

Nankandulo

Nakaato

Siting done

18

Magogo

Kakira

Kawule West

Siting done

19

Mbulamuti

Buluya

Buzaalabulwa

Siting done

20

Nabwigulu

Nabwigulu

Busikwe

Successfully drilled

21

Nabwigulu

Namunyingi

Bususwa

Siting done

22

Nabwigulu

Nabirumba I

Butwaale

Siting done

23

Balawoli

Nabulezi

Bubyasi

Siting done

24

Balawoli

Kawaga

Budatemwa

Siting done

25

Balawoli

Kawaga

Bugobi

Siting done