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Western Water to acquire title deeds

Western Water to acquire title deeds
By Nyambe Muyumbana in Mongu
Tuesday September 23, 2008 [04:00]

WESTERN Water and Sewerage Company managing director Mulemwa Akamana has announced that the company is in the process of engaging a lawyer who would acquire title deeds for all its land and property.

In an interview, Akamana said that currently squatters were being allocated land by the traditional authority on the company's well field making it difficult to expand its boreholes.

Akamana complained that it was difficult for the company to chase the squatters from the well field because Mongu council, which was supposed to clear the issue of land boundary, since the company had inherited its entire water infrastructure from it, had failed to intervene.

He said that the Barotse Royal Establishment was not willing to listen to the company but instead it was busy allocating land near the boreholes to the people.
He feared that the water risked being contaminated by the people since some of them were building pity latrines close to the boreholes.

He cited an incident last year where faecal matter was found in the water.
Akamana hoped the lawyer to be contracted would manage to engage the traditional authority and find a lasting solution to the current encroachment by the people on the water company's land.

The company has no title for all its entire property.

He further said that the current problem of squatters encroaching on the company's land had negatively stalled the company's expansion projects on the boreholes.
Akamana further disclosed that the company had however identified other new alternatives, which could be possible well field areas.

He named the new alternative areas as Kasima and Katongo.

Akamana said a hydrology consultant had already been engaged to do the testing of water in the said areas to ascertain whether the water would be consumable and also to determine quantity and quality compared to the current demand.

Labels: TITLE DEEDS, UTILITIES, WESTERN WATER AND SEWERAGE COMPANY

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