The capital city of Rwanda has turned a delay in funding into an opportunity to revise its plans so that more areas get connected to a new centralised sewerage system. Construction of a US$ 70 million wastewater treatment plant in Giti Cyinyoni, Nyarugenge District, was due to start in 2012 but has been delayed by one year.
The lack of a centralised sewage system in Kigali (pop.
A few weeks ago a freshman from City College of New York contacted me to ask a simple question for her Environmental Psychology class: "What is your take on the global water shortage?" She believed many people were not aware of the issue, or they thought such a scenario wouldn't affect them. After pondering her question for a few minutes, I realized she made a good point in the North American context anyway.
Driven amongst others by the mobile phone applications, more and more statistics are becoming available on the state of water services. These go well beyond the coverage data we were used to in the JMP reports (and which this year gave us some reason to be mildly optimistic). The new stats provide more insight into the functionality of infrastructure and the level of service being provided.
