Water is Life Solutions In Drinking And Agriculture Water Provision Initiative

As one way of ensuring that even people living in hard to reach areas have access to portable drinking water, one of the stakeholders in the provision of drinking and agriculture irrigation water, Water is Life Solutions has intensified drilling of boreholes for the communities around Nkhota-kota Game Reserve and agriculture schemes in Machinga and Salima districts.

Kaipa Banda who is the Director for Water is Life Solution (WILLS) contracted to drill and maintain boreholes around Nkhota-kota Game Reserve says the company will timely support all efforts being made in reaching out to the communities in the provision of clean water and ensuring that some water sources are protected by providing tree seedlings in targeted project implementation areas.

He further stated that for a long time there has been chaos mainly in circumstances where community members meet some fierce wild animals ending up in injuries or death in some instances.

“Indeed we are drilling and maintaining boreholes in areas surrounding Nkhotakota Game Reserve where in many circumstances wild animals have been wrecking havoc on the community members,” Banda said

He also disclosed that one borehole is benefitting more than 300 people meaning that from the boreholes sank so far more than 5,000 people have already benefitted.

Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi -WESM is the organization that has engaged the Water’s Life Solutions in the rehabilitation of boreholes and drilling some new ones in Nkhotakota district, in a bid to assist in protecting wild animals while also controlling the spread of Cholera and other waterborne diseases.

Speaking recently when handing over some of the boreholes in the area of Traditional Authority Mphonde in the district, Yassin Rashid Malandula, WESM’s Dwangwa Branch Manager said the project will go a long way in assisting communities surrounding Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve who have been struggling to access clean water at some point using the same water sources with wild animals.

Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi is implementing the MK125 million project with support from BridgIT Water Foundation of Australia.