The Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia (EIF) has completed a four-year programme of rolling out water softening and treatment technologies for borehole sites in several regions across the country.
EIF spokesperson Romeo Muyunda says the initiative was done in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform, which allocated a budget of N$40 million to support the planning and design of appropriate, site-specific water treatment solutions.
“The programme originated as an EIF-led innovation and pilot project in 2022, aimed at responding to longstanding water access challenges affecting rural communities,” Muyunda says.
A total of 17 borehole sites were covered under the project and implemented in two phases.
Phase One addressed 13 sites across the ||Kharas, Kunene, Ohangwena, Kavango East Kavango West and Zambezi regions.
Meanwhile, phase two focused on four additional sites in the Oshikoto region.
