The City of Windhoek today announced settling more than N$268 million in outstanding debt to the national electricity utility, NamPower.
-The Namibian Water Corporation (NAMWATER) has defended its award of a N$93,5 million tender to reconstruct a 5,8 kilometre stretch of the Omahenene-Olushandja canal in the Oshana and Omusati regions, respectively.
-The Okakarara Town Council owes NamWater N$7 million.
-There is great excitement around the Neckertal Dam being 85% full but raises the question of whether the dam walls are strong enough to handle the pressure.
-NAMWATER closed the sluices at Hardap Dam this evening.
-NamWater head of communications John Shigwedha announced that the Naute Dam outside Keetmanshoop in the //Kharas Region is 104,4 % full.
-The town of Aranos in the Hardap Region owes the Namibia Water Utility (NAMWATER) and electricity supplier NamPower a combined N$15 million.
-The site earmarked for the construction of an envisaged NamWater pilot desalination plant at Bethanie in the //Kharas Region was handed over by the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, Calle Schlettwein.
UNAM is in talks with NAMWATER to consider providing bulk desalinated seawater to the Erongo Region and the rest of the country.
-The Otavi Town Council has been unable to honour its municipal payments obligations, the town Council says this is a result of ever-increasing water tariffs by NAMWATER.
