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Robert Towler, the team leader of German Development Cooperation, says they that have developed an 18 year strategic program to improve garbage management, water and sanitation in the City.

Phillip Lotee, the in Charge of Loputuk Health Centre III, says cholera cases in the district have hit the 100 mark. On Sunday, 18 new cases were admitted to the facility increasing the number to 102 cases. Of these, 67 have been discharged and 33 are still on admission.

Peter Loyolo, the Interim Loputuk LC 3 Chairperson told Uganda Radio Network that the deceased died before he could be taken to the nearest health facility, which is 20km away.

While the report says majority of Ugandans (75%)can access water from improved sources, less than 20% have access to piped water.

Six people have died of cholera while 21 others are being treated at the isolation ward set up at Mulago National Referral Hospital.

The nonfunctional boreholes are in the sub counties of Kichwamba, Busoro, Karambi, Harugongo and parts of Fort Portal Municipality. Communities are forced to trek long distances in search for water or even draw water from unsafe sources often shared with animals.

The schools lack latrines and water storage facilities. The five stance pit latrine at Kisima Island primary school collapsed five months ago, leaving 200 pupils and 20 teachers without a latrine.

Rural areas in Kabarole district have not had access to safe and clean water for two years, despite huge sums of money allocated to the water sector. In an audit report released by Kabarole District Public Accounts Committee, more than 1.6 billion shillings allocated to the water sector for the two financial years 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, was diverted to other sectors or mismanaged, depriving communities of clean water.

So serious is the problem that it’s no longer strange to see both men and women easing themselves openly along corridors in the town.

A government primary school at Lwebitakuli Sub County in Ssembabule District is operating without sanitary facilities after their latrine caved in last term following heavy downpour.

Gulu Municipal Council offices are deserted due to a horrid smell coming from the lavatories. The offices have been without water for the past three weeks after National Water and Sewerage Corporation-NWSC disconnected it.

The high population growth rate is affecting the efforts put up by Mbale district in trying to achieve the national development plan of providing safe affordable drinking water to the poor in both urban and rural areas.