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Water soon to overflow at Pugu
2008-02-17 10:04:38
By Staff Reporter
That day is soon coming at Pugu Secondary School when students at the school would get water surpassing their daily needs.
For years now each student has been spending 200/- a day for safe and clean water amounting to about 1,500/- a week or 6,000/- a month, and 72,000/- a year as the dilapidated 58-year-old water system became completely absolute beginning in 1985.
This follows a special project designed by the education ministry to this one of the oldest schools in the country.
Already a water well has been dug at Majohe and will be pumping 2,500 litres of the liquid to the school population of about 1,800 with a daily demand of 76,000 litres.
``On average the school will be fed with 100,000 litres of water every day, more than our demand,``said Second Master Benedict Ogesa recently when approached by this newspaper following the acute shortage of the liquid reported in The Guardian on Sunday of July 22 last year.
Ogesa said a contractor had installed new pipes to the school tanks from the nearby Majohe well, and that the community was awaiting a pumping machine from Nairobi.
``We are all eager to taste the liquid from a new source,`` remarked a student of the famous school with a history of the Founder of the Nation, Mwalmu Nyerere being a teacher of the school at one time.
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