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Sunday, January 26, 2014 

Dar es Salaam to get 130m litre water tank

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Tanzania is expected to get a water tank complex able to pump  over 130 million litres of water a day.

   VA Tech Wabag Limited (VATW), the biggest maker of water-treatment plants in India, won a $40 million contract to carry out the project in Dar es Salaam.

   “We will build a 130 million-liter (34 million-gallon) a day at Upper Ruvu,” the firm’s Managing Director, Rajiv Mittal said in a statement given to East African Business Week.

   Acute water shortages will then become a thing of the past.

   Problems associated with limited water supplies have been common for Dar es Salaam and Coast region residents for several years now.    

   The new plant will be constructed at the Upper Ruvu areas.

   The actual current demand for water in Dar es Salaam stands at about 450,000 cubic metres a day while the volume supplied is  currently 300,000 cubic metres, leaving some places in the city without water.

    Dar es Salaam has a population of about four million.

    The project is funded by Exim Bank of India under the Indian line of credit.

   The project is a design and build contract from Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Authority (Dawasa) while the scope of the work comprises the building of 130 MLD Upper Ruvu Water Treatment Plant.

   Mittal said they are delighted that their efforts in Sub-Sahara region have started yielding results.

   Wabag is already present in North African market and with this order “we are further expanding our footprints into newer geographies.”

By Leonard Magomba, Sunday, January 26th, 2014