KAMPALA: The Ggaba Water Treatment Plant team has stepped up efforts to tackle growing environmental threats near Lake Victoria by initiating a stakeholder dialogue with leaders from the Ggaba LC1 Water Zone, that focused on the twin challenges of pollution and poor waste management, issues that continue to jeopardize Kampala’s primary water source.
Led by Plant Manager Thomas Mukhwana and HR Officer Abu Isabirye, the NWSC team called for a stronger sense of shared responsibility in safeguarding the lake’s ecosystem while highlighting the alarming rise in solid waste being dumped into water channels, much of which ends up in the lake. Beyond its environmental consequences, this kind of pollution directly affects water quality and drives up the cost and complexity of the treatment process.
To bring this reality closer to home, the team gave the local leaders a guided overview of the water treatment process, a behind-the-scenes glimpse that helped dismantle the widespread notion that water simply flows from the lake to the tap, instead revealing the technical precision and financial investment required to deliver safe drinking water to Kampala residents.
LC1 Chairperson Mr. Mutebi welcomed the engagement, applauded NWSC’s openness, and pledged to become an advocate for environmental responsibility within his community, vowing to lead efforts to raise awareness and shift waste disposal practices at household level.
The meeting was followed by a field tour through parts of the Ggaba zone, where the NWSC team and local leaders spoke with residents about hygiene, sanitation, and environmental stewardship. These door-to-door conversations helped reinforce a central truth that clean water cannot be sustained without a clean environment.
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