{"id":32105,"date":"2017-01-26T07:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/relief-as-eastern-province-gets-solar-powered\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T23:39:19","slug":"relief-as-eastern-province-gets-solar-powered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/relief-as-eastern-province-gets-solar-powered\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief as Eastern Province gets solar-powered water treatment equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Water scarcity in the Eastern Province is set to be addressed within three months following the inauguration of a new joint project between the government of Rwanda and Green Water, a Swedish company. } <\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC), Sano James said in a press briefing yesterday that the project will provide water treating machines using solar energy to purify  water before  use.  <\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Province has been faced with incessant and episodic water shortages with  residents consuming dirty  water.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water treatment equipment purifying water using solar power  will draw  water from Akagera River and extend it to villages to reduce the health and wild-animal risks involved,\u201d said Sano.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the initiative will go a long way in reducing health hazards and avoid risks of encountering wild animals while fetching water from water points.<\/p>\n<p>The  Rwf 250 million joint project to which Rwanda will contribute Rwf 70 million with remaining fund to be poured in by Green Water will develop five water treatment centers in Bugesera and  five in Nyagatare districts.  <\/p>\n<p>Sano explained that the system was adopted taking into account remote areas where availing ordinary infrastructures would be expensive and would take long time to accomplish. <\/p>\n<p>The target of the government of Rwanda is to get all Rwandans access safe water at 100% by 2020 from the current 90% in urban centers  and 84% in rural areas. Safe water access from across the country is currently estimated at 85%. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17825 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sano_james.jpg\" alt=\"The CEO of Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC), Sano James\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Water scarcity in the Eastern Province is set to be addressed within three months following the inauguration of a new joint project between the government of Rwanda and Green Water, a Swedish company. } The CEO of Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC), Sano James said in a press briefing yesterday that the project will provide [&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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105","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=32105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32105"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32105"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}