The TRANSFORM: Utilities Sanitation Challenge
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Date
2020
Authors
Otim, Brian
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Abstract
Many households in northern Uganda lack access to improved water supply and sanitation
services (on-and-off grid) owing to the massive destruction of the water infrastructure during
the protracted war involving government and the LRA rebels for over a decade making them
prone to water-borne diseases. In addition the local authorities i.e. urban and town councils
don’t fully have the resources to manage wastes i.e. liquid and solid given the limited
logistical support they get from the central government for them to implement fully-fledged
on-site sanitation services. This has therefore resulted into the clogging of storm water
drainage systems since it is where the wastes are deposited by the public leading to eventual
pollution of the nearby water catchment areas. Furthermore due to the lack of sensitization on
waste management by the concerned stakeholders, a lion’s proportion of the filth is channeled
into sewers resulting into high treatment costs of the discharges at waste and water treatment
plants respectively.
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Otim, B. (2020). The TRANSFORM: Utilities Sanitation Challenge.