Leaders in Bushenyi district have asked the central government to stretch its tough hand on continued wetland encroachment in the area.
According to the leaders, the country has over time slid into massive environmental degradation, leading to devastating impacts on weather patterns which affects human lives with planting seasons changing to the worst.
While addressing locals at Ntungamo parish headquarters in Nyakabirizi division on August 29, Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipal Mayor decried the rate at which everything is going to the worst.
His remarks came after the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) Bushenyi area manager, Eng. Sam Kiggundu, said that the water volumes had dropped due to the failure of wetlands to supply water to their dams.
Eng. Kiggundu said the Nyaruzinga wetland, from which NWSC taps water, had run out and moved from producing one million liters of water per day to 900,000 liters per day due to degradation.
Byaruhanga thus asked Parliament to make sure that the law on environmental protection is strictly enforced to save what is not yet lost.
The leaders had turned up for a ceremony to launch a 2.5-kilometer piped water project, which NWSC is doing in partnership with the Rotary Club of Bushenyi.
The eleven million shillings project is poised to serve the water-stressed areas of Rwakahuka, Rwamukooto, and Nyakahita in Ntungamo ward, Bushenyi-ishaka municipality, according to Ms Agnes Nantale, the President of the Rotary Club of Bushenyi.
