The residents of Tampoa community in the Nadowli-Kaleo District are in dire need of a source of potable. The community currently depends on a small dugout to get water for domestic purposes. That is where the domestic and wild animals in the area also drink from.
Speaking to Info Radio on the water situation in the community, Madam Diana Basaanaderi, a resident, indicated that they have no other water source in the area.
According to her, they had to trek over ten kilometres to the nearest community to beg for water from their borehole.
When Info Radio visited the dugout at the valley, about 6 kilometres from the community, it realized that the people had barricaded the small dugout with sticks to prevent animals from tempering with the water since they would destroy it.
Madam Basaanaderi indicated that women in that community have to spend much time getting water from their families before going to their farms which affects their economic activities.
Meanwhile, Mr Basaanaderi, the community leader, told Info Radio that the Nadowli-Kaleo District Assembly has drilled a borehole in the community, and built a concrete stand for an overhead tank for the community but did not return to complete it after five years now since that was done.
This had left the small farming community of three households with less than 50 people to wallow in anguish over potable water sources, especially in the dry season.