{"id":13245,"date":"2014-03-19T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T09:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/30-000-kayonza-residents-to-benefit-from-new\/"},"modified":"2014-03-19T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T12:23:32","slug":"30-000-kayonza-residents-to-benefit-from-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/30-000-kayonza-residents-to-benefit-from-new\/","title":{"rendered":"30,000 Kayonza Residents to Benefit from New Water System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{As part of Rwanda\u2019s National Water Week and World Water Day celebrations, the United States, through USAID\u2019s Rwanda Integrated Water Security Program, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Migera Water System today in Kayonza District. }} <\/p>\n<p>The construction of the system was officially launched by USAID\/Rwanda Mission Director Peter Malnak, Honorable Minister of Natural Resources Ambassador Stanislas Kamanzi, and Governor of Eastern Province Odette Uwamariya, together with other local officials and community members.<\/p>\n<p>The system will provide safe and sustainable drinking water to approximately 30,000 individuals living in Mwiri and Rwinkwavu sectors as well as critical district institutions such as Rwinkwavu Hospital, two health centers, seven public schools, and local churches and commercial centers located in the project zone. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to drinking water, the system will provide water for small-scale irrigation of crops in approximately 30 communities.<\/p>\n<p>This $2.4 million project is part of USAID\u2019s Rwanda Integrated Water Security Program, which works to improve the sustainable management of water quantity and quality to positively impact human health, food security, and resiliency to climate change for vulnerable communities at particular risk of water insecurity in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Migera Water System is an excellent example of how USAID seeks to work in Rwanda \u2013 through projects that integrate across sectors to have meaningful impact on the lives of individuals and their communities,\u201d said USAID Mission Director Peter Malnak. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system will address the critical gap in access to clean, reliable water in the area which will improve hygiene and nutrition, reduce disease, increase agricultural production, and allow community members to live healthier, more productive lives.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Migera system comprises several components: the construction of a new water supply system, Migera III, and the rehabilitation and extension of Migera I, Migera II and the Rwazana water supply systems in the same area. <\/p>\n<p>All of the sites and construction plans were made in close collaboration with Kayonza District Officials. The full Migera project \u2013 including new construction and rehabilitation \u2013 is planned to last 15 months.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4754 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/migera_water_system_groundbreaking_-_rwisp_march_2014_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4751 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/migera_water_system_groundbreaking_-_rwisp_march_2014_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4752 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/migera_water_system_groundbreaking_-_rwisp_march_2014_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4753 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/migera_water_system_groundbreaking_-_rwisp_march_2014_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4755 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/migera_water_system_groundbreaking_-_rwisp_march_2014_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{As part of Rwanda\u2019s National Water Week and World Water Day celebrations, the United States, through USAID\u2019s Rwanda Integrated Water Security Program, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Migera Water System today in Kayonza District. }} The construction of the system was officially launched by USAID\/Rwanda Mission Director Peter Malnak, Honorable Minister of Natural Resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-13245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051041,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13245.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13245.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13245.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13245.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13245.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13245.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=13245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}