{"id":27094,"date":"2016-07-21T11:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nkombo-island-lack-of-safe-water-exposes\/"},"modified":"2016-07-24T06:48:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T06:48:25","slug":"nkombo-island-lack-of-safe-water-exposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nkombo-island-lack-of-safe-water-exposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkombo Island lack of safe water exposes residents to disease risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Residents of Nkombo Island have lamented over lack of safe water with no adequate public water taps and residents consume Lake Kivu water, leaving them susceptible to poor hygiene related diseases.}<\/p>\n<p>Talking to IGIHE, Nkombo resident Nyabyenda Jean de Dieu said; \u201c It is hard for a resident  to access safe water as most of the water points are distant. We have only one borehole in our cell .So, we are forced to use Lake Kivu water as there is no other choice.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Nyiranzayisaba Rosette, another Nkombo resident has explained that they prefer fetching Kivu  water to avoid the usually crowded and chaotic borehole. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you find many people at the borehole after walking  a long distance  of two hours, it discourages a person to return to the borehole. ,\u201dshe said.<\/p>\n<p>The Nkombosector official in charge of land, demography and infrastructure, Nizeyimana Fontaine has said that the problem of water will be resolved soon under the project of WASAC aimed at purifying water to be availed in four of five cells of Nkombo sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery cell is inhabited by about  3000 people with  only two boreholes.It understandable that they face water shortage but we are seeking a solution.A plant to clean  water extracted from the ground  is being built, which, on completion will distribute water to a reservoir,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the  project was initiated by the Ministry of Infrastructure and is being executed by WASAC and expected to be completed in September 2016 and will see the number of citizens accessing safe water rise to 60%. <\/p>\n<p>Nkombo sector is comprised of five cells inhabited by more than 17,000 people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13698 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ukiva_mu_bwato_ugeze_mu_murenge_wa_nkombo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Residents of Nkombo Island have lamented over lack of safe water with no adequate public water taps and residents consume Lake Kivu water, leaving them susceptible to poor hygiene related diseases.} Talking to IGIHE, Nkombo resident Nyabyenda Jean de Dieu said; \u201c It is hard for a resident to access safe water as most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27094"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27094"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}