Friday, 21 September 2012 01:06 Muna Tesfai
The Ministry of Water and Irrigation plans to extend piped water to all the ten states by the year 2015.
The Minister of Water and Irrigation, Paul Mayom Okage, says the Ministry is focusing on rural areas and will leave water supply in urban areas to the National Water Corporation. Paul Mayom Okage, who is also chairperson of the board of directors of the National Water Corporation, says the project will cost the government about two billion US dollars.
''As the ministry requests is now largely in the rural water supply and the urban water is now the rule of the cooperation and we only doing assistance in the coordination by the ministry, but our focus now on the very many people of our country who are in the rural settlement it is a significant investment it is not less than two billion dollars that is by making rough estimate as two hundred and five million for a state that is mean we are talking about two billion dollars. We have to also to think about how to manage with the supply, and how to the demand and how to make the citizen responsible for the consumption of the water''
Minister Paul Mayom Okage made the statement at the first board meeting of the National Water Corporation on Thursday.