Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene 2014 Sept - Oct Vol. 9 No.5 | Page 8

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anticipated great catastrophe that might result from the District Municipality, but more especially the Jozini Local
Municipality, receives universal coverage.
imminent collapse of Lake Nyos,” the Minister explained.
The project, which is estimated to cost R1.5 billion, has also
The Kashimbilla Multipurpose Dam Project has three brought job opportunities to the community. By the end of
components comprising of 40 megawatts hydro power the 2013/14 financial year, a total of 470 job opportunities
which would utilize about 140 m3/second water supply had been created.
component, including a water treatment plant with a capacity
of 60,000m3 /day to provide water to about 400,000 people
and an irrigation component designed to utilize 86,400m3/ Sudan
day to irrigate about 2000 hectares of farmland.
Water drought, flooding hits Central and North Darfur
camps

South Africa

Pongolapoort Water Project Welcomed
Cabinet has welcomed the launch of Phase 1A of
Pongolapoort Bulk Water Supply project, which will bring
water to the community of Jozini in KwaZulu-Natal.

A water crisis has struck the internally displaced people living
in Nierteti locality, Central Darfur, after all the water pumps
in the camps have stalled. Meanwhile the accumulation of
water in a camp in El Fasher locality is causing the spread of
mosquitoes and malaria.

A displaced person from the Nierteti North camp revealed
The project was unveiled by Water and Sanitation Minister to Radio Dabanga that there are six stalled pumps in his
Nomvula Mokonyane together with KwaZulu-Natal camp, two in the South camp, and three in the Garsila
Premier Senzo Mchunu, recently.
camp in Nierteti locality. “The residents demand the aid
The more than 30-year-old dam, which has been a
single-purpose dam for the best part of its life, is now
being turned into a multi-purpose dam that will not
just carry water through the village, but to far away
destinations within the surrounding communities
who had previously no access to fresh water.
The Pongolapoort Bulk Water Supply is in Phase
1A of a larg