PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete has directed the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) and Lindi Urban Water and Sewerage Authority (LUWASA) to ensure water is available in the area, as he had earlier promised.
He made the directive when inspecting water supply sources for wells and tanks at Kitunda suburb in Msinjali Ward in Lindi.
President Kikwete directed the two authorities to make sure that they fulfill promises by December, this year.
The president, however, noted that the water supply project had been implemented by 80 per cent and that electricity has not so far been connected to the water source to make it operational.
Mr Kikwete said that residents around the project should be first beneficiaries and he promised to officiate the opening ceremony.
The LUWASA General Manager, Mr Daud Majani, said 3.3bn/- out of 7.7bn/- has been spent on the project.
He said the money was used for building the infrastructure including construction of new water pipes and a tank with a capacity of storing 3 million litres of water.
Mr Majani assured the public that the project would be completed in the third week of December, this year.
Among challenges the project is facing, according to Mr Majani, included high expenses on fuel due to the increase of prices of diesel.
He also hinted that his authority was planning to launch another water project in 2013, which will be drawing water from Ng'apa basin.
Mr Majani said the project to be funded by Germany, will supply clean and safe water to residents of the region.
TANESCO Region office said the project will be supplied with power later this month and needed 210 electricity poles, where 150 had already been erected.
Meanwhile, President Kikwete's motorcade stopped at two villages of Nampunga and Simana where the president pledged to give 5m/- in support of a dispensary and teachers' houses which are under construction.
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