{"id":43189,"date":"2021-03-29T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T11:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/volcano-national-park-neighbouring-residents-connected-to-safe-water\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T11:58:45","slug":"volcano-national-park-neighbouring-residents-connected-to-safe-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/volcano-national-park-neighbouring-residents-connected-to-safe-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcano National Park neighbouring residents connected to safe water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rubavu district officials have revealed this at the completion of Water for Virunga, a project that used to provide water reservoirs to prevent erosion and residents from encroaching the forest to fetch water.  <\/p>\n<p>The project built water points to provision safe water.  <\/p>\n<p>The coordinator of Water For Virunga in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gertjan Leereveld revealed that 222 water reservoirs were built for residents. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Rubavu district, we implemented the project in Bugeshi sector where we provided 222 water reservoirs that helped residents to catch rain water that used to cause erosions and ravage crops belonging to Kibumba residents in DRC.  We have set up three water committees comprised of 21 residents that will follow up the maintenance of water points. We shall stay closer for them to carry out their tasks diligently,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Uzaribara Th\u00e9oneste, one of public water points administrators assured residents\u2019 collaboration in proper management of these infrastructures.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have come together in a group whereby everyone contributed some money helping us to make savings to ensure sustainability of these infrastructures or buy more reservoirs after the project ends,\u201d he said.   <\/p>\n<p>Rubavu district vice mayor for economic affairs, Nzabonimpa D\u00e9ogratias explained that the problem of water shortage will become history in the neighborhood of the park.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our responsibility as a district to preserve achievements in the provision and catchment of water. We assure residents that the problem of water shortage  with interventions of Virunga Belt project which is set to build the road promised by President of the Republic from Burera to pass through Musanza, Nyabihu to this area.  The road will come along water supply systems distributing safe water from treatment plants,\u201d he noted.  <\/p>\n<p>Bugeshi is among sectors bordering with Virunga National Park from where residents used to fetch water from fountains putting their lives at risks as they encounter wild animals including buffalos.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38174 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ababyeyi_bishimiye_kubona_amazi_hafi_bagaragaza_ko_agiye_kubafasho_kongera_isuku.jpg\" alt=\"Residents expressed delight for water provision to their homes.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38175 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bakira_innocbe1c-f9ecb.jpg\" alt=\"Water for Virunga built different water points in Virunga National Park neighborhood.   \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38176 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mbere_abaturage_bajyaga_gushaka_amazi_mu_masoko_ari_mu_kirunga_cya_kalisimbi.jpg\" alt=\"The neighborhood on Volcano National Park is renowned for mass potatoes production. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Residents in the neighborhood on Volcano National Park from Burera, Musanze, Nyabihu and Rubavu districts have started receiving water through the project dubbed Virunga Belt also expected to build roads along perimeters of the park in a bid to facilitate mobility in these areas renowned for mass potatoes production. }  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-43189","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\/43189","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43189"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43189"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}