The managing director of National Water and Electricity Company has said the company is exploring new measures to tackle the problem of water in the Greater Banjul Area.
The Greater Banjul is largely known for its water problems, with conditions in some communities lamentable.
Nawec’s managing director, Baba Fatajo, told journalists at a press conference on Monday that “we still have some challenges that may take some time before we can really give them 24 hours uninterrupted supply for the simple reason that we still have significant gap between supply and demand.”
“We are also taking some measures in a bid to picking on the lost production by way of drilling more boreholes. And as we speak now our water department is working very hard to bring those boreholes and we hope that once that is done, the situation would be improved,” he said.
The public utility’s boss said that piecemeal interventions are not sustainable to the country’s water problems as the country’s population is growing.
“We have a growing population and a growing demand. Therefore we must be able to have a major investment into the sector to ensure that at least within a reasonable horizon we will be able to meet the demand,” he said.
