6 August 2019
Rebezo citizen access drinking water from Gatonde-Gahima water supply
Since July 29, 2019, Mwizerwa Gilbert was employed by BFCC to manage the Rebezo village water kiosk in Kibungo Sector in Ngoma District. Rebezo water kiosk was constructed to improve the drinking water supply system to the population of Gatonde and Gahima Cells under Local Area Development Plan (LAPD). The project comes as a response to the high demand of potable water from surrounding heath posts and centres, new village agglomerations, schools, trading, market, religious buildings to name but a few.
The Gatonde-Gahuma adduction project has a flow rate of 6.8 litres per second thanks to the availability of 6 source zones to capture water. The Rebezo water kiosk is expected to supply water to about 250,000 persons. As of now, Gilberts charges 20 Rwandan Francs per jerrycan from surrounding water fetchers. He perceives about 5000Rwf per day, that is at least 250 jerrycans per day from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. Gilberts is paid 800 Rwf per day.
He shared with us his excitement about his new job; he says “I believe the water kiosk will attract many habitants from the surrounding area, given that water is a basic need”. The water kiosk opened a week before.
A water seeker explained that she had to walk early in the morning for 2 hours from Nyamuganda village to line up at a remote water kiosk and she would come back home after 3 hours in Gatonde because the jerrycans were heavy on the way back home.
Ngoma District will soon officially inaugurate the water kiosk together with the construction of 28,7 km of mixed water pipeline supplying 10,500 populations of Gatonde-Gahima cells, 33 km Gituku-Murama water supply system and construction of its main reservoir as well as 9,54km of Kigabiro-Rurenge-Gatore Feeder Road pavement.
