Pigi County Lacks Safe Water Source: Speaker
Pigi County in Jonglei State, South Sudan lacks clean and safe drinking water source as the only borehole there has broken down. 21 May 2013 Jonglei State Speaker Peter Chol Wol. [Gurtong file] By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 21 May 2013 [Gurtong] – The State Parliamentary Speaker Peter Chol Wal said the county does not have any single borehole while Aleluyya Garang, a local artist who visited the area a week ago said there is at least one borehole at Khorfulus but has also broken down. “What I want to say is that I am quite sure that there is no borehole in Pigi County. People are depending on river water (unpurified water),” Speaker Chol told Gurtong. Chol said there was a plan and instruction from the Governor to some companies for construction of about 32 boreholes in Pigi County this year. Chol however did not know how far the projects have reached. A number of borehole drilling companies have been previously hired to the boreholes across the companies failed to reach water table (level) according to the local authorities. “I think that those companies are still in the county drilling the boreholes. I never heard any late information about the drilling of the boreholes,” said Chol. “I need to get this information because the last time I went there in January, there was an organization operating on the ground. Three boreholes were directed for the area called Wunlem and they started working there.” The State Minister of Physical Infrastructure, Peter Manawe Gatkuoth said that two companies: Pah and TNR that were contracted to constructs boreholes in Wunlem failed to get water in the area. The absence of boreholes has forced the community members to depend on Sobath River which according to the speaker is a cause for suffering from water borne-diseases like Kala Zar in the area, (Pigi), Ayod and Fangak counties. The speaker urged the governments and development partners to consider constructing boreholes in the county as well as in Pibor and the Luo community areas. Posted in: Home, Governance, Parliaments -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oo1X7XnbajGuO0VsBxymsadocuP8cyg8M%3DWtqbBa121%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
