Egypt gives Uganda sh3.8b for water wells

The deal is part of the ongoing Uganda- Egypt Joint technical cooperation in the areas of water resources management.

“The Egyptian government is concerned that every year floods continue to ravage Kasese and surrounding districts yet this can be stopped. Our technical team is preparing to do feasibility studies through fast track intervention to avert more damages due to rain floods in Kasese,” he observed.

He said the team would construct rain water dams to control the flood during the rain seasons. “The stored water can be utilized for domestic and livestock usage during the dry season,” said Yosry.

According to Dr. Yosry Khafagy, the Head Egyptian Irrigation Mission in Uganda, the deal was agreed during a visit by senior Ministry of Water and Environment officials to Egypt last month during the activities of the third Joint steering committee meeting of the technical cooperation protocol project.

The officials led by David Obong the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Water and Environment were in Egypt to jointly follow up the on-going activities of the components of the technical cooperation protocol projects.