{"id":40291,"date":"2019-10-31T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/government-loses-over-rwf-11-billion-in-non\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:50:18","slug":"government-loses-over-rwf-11-billion-in-non","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/government-loses-over-rwf-11-billion-in-non\/","title":{"rendered":"Government loses over Rwf 11 billion in non-revenue water annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The institution also says, it is committed to reduce the quantity of non-revenue water-rated at 38% yet international standards require 20.5 percent as the maximum of wastewater.   <\/p>\n<p>The latter brings loss of between over Rwf 11 and 13 billion annually. <\/p>\n<p>The figures were revealed on Wednesday during a press conference with WASAC management on the current water distribution and sanitation policy to Rwandans.  <\/p>\n<p>The wasted water hinders the Government\u2019s target to achieve universal access to safe water among Rwandans by 2024 walking less than 30 minutes distance to and from public water taps.  <\/p>\n<p>The Government, however, plans to cut down wastewater by 25% within five years.<br \/>\nGisele Umuhumuza, the deputy chief executive of WASAC explained that the 38% non-revenue water incurs the loss of Rwf 11 billion to the Government.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sometimes incurs the loss between Rwf 11 and 13 billion.  There are always susceptible losses in water distribution activities but we strive to meet 20.5% as international standards.   Measuring the loss on these standards, it would be between Rfw 7 and 8 billion,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>Umuhumuza said some water supply systems get ravaged due to old structures, human activities or setting up infrastructures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe count over 390 water supply systems that need to be repaired.  The 2017 study revealed that we need Rwf 13 billion,\u201d she explained.  <\/p>\n<p>WASAC called on everyone to make it their own responsibility to protect infrastructure and shun activities destroying water supply systems like illegal mining and provide information to repair a ravaged system before the situation worsens.  <\/p>\n<p>WASAC reports that Rwanda has the capacity to treat over 180,000 cubic meters every day. <\/p>\n<p>It has over 216 000 customers.<\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Integrated Household Living Survey (EICV5) in 2016\/2017 indicates that 87.4 percent of Rwandans have access to clean water has increased from 26.3 percent in 1994 and before.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have clean water access in their own homes have increased from 2.6 percent to 9.4 percent<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33114 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_9540-4-70037.jpg\" alt=\"Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC) has announced that the previous census in 2017 indicated that a total of 390 damaged water supply systems countrywide \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33115 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/wasac_yavuze_uburyo_abantu_basesagura_amazi_butitabwaho_barangiza_bakinubira_ubwinshi_bw_amafaranga_bishyuzwa-862f0.jpg\" alt=\"WASAC called on everyone to make it their own responsibility to protect infrastructure and shun activities destroying water supply systems\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC) has announced that the previous census in 2017 indicated that a total of 390 damaged water supply systems countrywide need over Rwf 13 billion to be mended to enhance uninterrupted conveniently supply of water to customers conveniently. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-40291","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\/40291","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}