The Gobabis Municipality, in collaboration with the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development, is set to roll out prepaid water and electricity provision to its residents; these projects should be completed before the end of the 2025/2026 financial year.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform has unveiled a comprehensive strategy to deliver sustainable and durable solutions to the water challenges currently affecting communities countrywide.
Given prospects of good rainfall, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has said discussions are on to ensure that schools in floodplain areas do not close during the rainy season.
Schools such as Onghala, Ohaingu, Oudjobala and Shingunguma would need urgent intervention to avoid their temporary closures.
Kavango East Governor Hamunyera Hambyuka and his team inspected the water supply infrastructure in Rundu just a day after Urban and Rural Development Minister James Sankwasa's meeting on the water crisis.
Minister of Urban and Rural Development James Sankwasa has given the Kavango East regional leadership two days to find a solution to the water crisis in Rundu.
The 11th edition of the annual "NBC Battle of All" ended with new champions crowned after two days of intense competition at the Eros Primary School Sport Field over the weekend.
The Namibian government, in partnership with NamWater, has embarked on the Ogongo–Oshakati Water Pipeline Project, marked by a groundbreaking ceremony at the Ogongo Treatment Plant in December 2024.
NamWater has announced a planned water supply shutdown that will impact all distribution lines served by the Omafo-Eenhana pipeline on Thursday.
According to NamWater spokesperson Lot Ndamanomhata, the shutdown is expected to last approximately nine hours.
Otavi Constituency Councillor George !Garab has said that the Otjozondjupa Regional Council must take over the provision of water to residents of Kombat without the involvement of NamWater.
When the Kombat mine was in full swing, it was providing the residents of Kombat with free water.
NamWater has announced an extension of water rationing in Walvis Bay as unresolved electricity supply issues at the Rooi Bank and Dorop South aquifer systems continue to affect water extraction.
