By Chris Mugasha
BUSHENYI: Institutions, landlords and residents especially in the Bushenyi/Ishaka Municipality and the neighboring towns should have no more reasons to worry on managing sewage as National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has committed to develop a sewage treatment station in the area.
NWSC’s commitment comes at a time when institutions, landlords and residents have been finding it difficult to managing sewage with some hiring sewage vehicles from Mbarara to empty the full facilities/toilets. Bushenyi/Ishaka municipality’s population is increasing very fast due to a number of institutions/universities which have come up fueling the rate of urbanization.
Speaking during the Bushenyi/Ishaka Municipality’s budget consultative workshop for 2027/2028 financial year at Tuzza Hotel on Wednesday, the Bushenyi NWSC area Manager Eng. Sam Kiggundu disclosed that the Municipality has already allocated land to NWSC for the project whose implementation is expected to begin next year 2027.
Kiggundu said upon completion, institutions, the owners of the buildings will be able to connect their buildings direct to the sewer line.
The residents hailed NWSC saying a sewerage treatment station for Bushenyi has been long overdue. Kiggundu described the project as one of the interventions which will help the Municipality to grow into a city. Currently, across the country, NWSC provides water services in 287 cities, towns and Municipalities and sewerage services in 18 Towns, serving approximately 20 million people.
Kiggundu appealed to the residents to be cooperative during the implementation of such projects noting that, “when we are laying our pipes through your plots of land we get challenges because most of you don’t want us to access your land and yet water lines cannot pass through air or in the road reserves.”
Kiggundu further challenged locals on waste management warning that the issue of degrading the environment especially wetlands has a big negative impact on water.
“Sometimes when we fail to give you water just know that our machines have overworked during the process of purifying water first. If the wetlands were still intact and doing their work of filtering water, NWSC wouldn’t be spending a lot of time and resources on treating water,” he explained as he was responding to some people who complained of poor water supply in their areas.
Addressing the stakeholders, the Mayor Richard Byaruhanga said in the coming financial year (2027/2028), under the UCMID program, the Municipality has been allocated about Shs21billion for infrastructure development especially roads. End.
