Potable water for Farm Uitsig Post-3

NAMPA WINDHOEKThe community of Farm Uitsig Post-3 in the Sorris-Sorris communal conservancy area recently received a dam for potable water after the one they relied on was damaged three years ago. The dam was constructed with funding from the Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia and will benefit six households. In an interview with Nampa, Sorris-Sorris chairperson Gerson //Aiseb said the community had campaigned for the dam for a long time. “I would like to urge the public not to damage the dam in anyway. We as the leadership will make sure that every new development is looked after and we will be doing inspections from time to time. The dam that was at the farm got old and cracked and could not be used again as it was wasting water. We had to cancel making use of the dam,” he said. Relieved communityOne of the residents, Essay Jagger, said the community is relieved as they went for some time without potable water for both human and animal consumption. “It has been a long struggle for us at the farm. Sometimes we had to take our animals to nearby farms for them to drink water; however, this will be a thing of the past now. When I moved to this farm about seven years ago, there was a borehole of the government which later completely dried up. We managed to find an old borehole and bought an electric pump to pump water from that borehole, but it did not last long as well and that was about four years ago,” Jagger said. Jagger added that construction of the dam was completed last Monday and on Tuesday water was already pumped into the dam for both animal and human consumption. “The dam has a solar pump and we are very grateful. There will be no need to buy diesel to pump water like at some of the farms at the conservancy.”

Potable water for Farm Uitsig Post-3

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Potable water for Farm Uitsig Post-3

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