Access to Clean Water

At present, in Muwanga sub-county, the majority of rural households do not have access to clean drinking water within their village. This is further confirmed by the UBOS reports of 2020 indicating that about 64.3% of the total population in Muwanga sub county have no access to safe water, about 2.4% do not have access to toilet facilities and about 47% of the population leave 5 km or more from the nearest health facility. This puts the community in this subcounty in a vulnerable situation to disease outbreaks. Again 22% of the households are headed by either children or female, who are vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence as they go looking for water source.

The rural populations draw their water from unprotected springs or swamps located from 300 to 600 meters (328 to 656 yards) from the villages or from hand-dug wells, locally known as (bedibba). The (bedibba) are primitive wells with an average depth of about six meters and with a diameter about the size of a large truck tire and uncovered at the top. The water collected from swamps (bedibba) is used for bathing, washing clothes, cooking and drinking, also shared, by cows, goats, hens and dogs Unfortunately, the shared use of swamps, (bedibba),springs for washing laundry, bathing and cooking is unsanitary and promotes a number of health problems.

According to 2021 clinic data/information obtained from mama Tendo who owns a clinic here in Kigoma Village most of the sick patients she treats suffer from diarrhea, typhoid, dysentery and intestinal stomach aches. I wish to construct a protected well in my community.