Improving access to clean water and sanitation for lakeside communities

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The project aimed to improve access to drinking water supply and affordable sanitation services in Mwanza and the satellite towns of Mwanza (Misungwi, Magu and Lamadi) and sanitation services in town of Musoma and Bukoba. This project included: The expansion of the sanitation and wastewater treatment systems by rehabilitating and expanding a wastewater treatment plant in Mwanza.The construction of new wastewater treatment plants in the 3 towns.The construction of collectors, connections and sanitary blocks. Providing of sanitation services in schools, public places and informal settlements in Mwanza city and its peri-urban areas Providing of septic tank emptying services, and equipment and installation of a fecal sludge drying station in Mwanza.A technical assistance to build the capacities of water and sanitation utilities The promotion of agreements with industrialists for them to treat their effluents and conduct a water quality monitoring study in the water intake point along lake Victoria’s shore.