By Steven Enatu
SOROTI CITY
A team of skilled experts from the National Water and Sewerage Corporation’s central laboratory has effectively rectified the discoloured water issue at the Awoja treatment plant.
This was revealed by Peter Ebwaat, the Soroti area Manager of NWSC, today, 26th June, 2024 while speaking to the Media at his office.
Ebwaat reported that a group of distinguished professors from the central laboratory had pitch camped at the Awoja treatment plant for a duration of two weeks, successfully restoring the water quality. They developed a formula for restoring the water colour and reconfigured the plant’s system.
For nearly a month, the Awoja treatment plant of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation had been experiencing erratic water supply and discoloured water.
He attributed the colored water to effects of human activity along the water channels like plantations and those at the upstream areas of Bugisu who are using maximum fertilisers which all get washed into the water system.
This was caused by flash floods that carried water from the Bugisu, and Karamoja,regions, as explained by Area Manager Ebwaat.
However, he assured that the water was safe for human consumption.
“Recently with that wave of flash floods, we were affected at the plant because water stagnated, it could not move and it was not only Awoja but also Agu treatment plant in Ngora. It gave our team some challenge to deliver in the previous days the expected colour of water that we are used to but I can assure you that we were following the entire international standard by world health organization and also the national bureau of standards. The water was safe” Ebwat said.
According to Ebwaat when the professors from their central laboratory came, thorough research was done with the current system to address the issue of water colour which has been achieved.
He asked water users to clean their water storage facilities like tanks at homes.
“Sometimes our clients keep their storage for so long before cleaning and when we send our water, it finds their tanks dirty and they keep getting that dirty water,” he said.
Ebwaat noted that sometimes they incur bursts and leakages along the water pipe lines and some infiltration occurs and escapes into the networks. “This should not cause you an alarm; you just need to flash your tap which cannot take even a jerrican of water,” he said.
Awoja treatment plant in Soroti supplies water to 8000 homesteads across Soroti city and district, Amuria, Kaberamado and Kalaki.
