National water and sewerage corporation Gulu branch is anticipating an acute water shortage to hit Gulu city during the dry season.
Ivan Teka-kwo, the Northern region spokesperson for National water and sewerage corporation reveals that their previous assessment on water demand has established that there is an increase in demand for water in Gulu city.
According to Teka-kwo, numerous activities involving usage of water such as construction, brick laying practices, fire extinguishing, and domestic purposes such as drinking and bathing usually increase during the dry season.
NWSC is currently producing an average of 7 to 8 million liters of water per day but the consumption of water has surged up to 10 million liters per day and it is anticipated that it would even double during dry seasons.
In a bid to address the anticipated challenges, NWSC national revealed that they have established two boreholes one in Bank-lane and other one in Layibi, one of the water stressed areas.
The boreholes will be used for pumping underground water of up to 2 million liters of water per day to supplement on 9 liters fetched from Oitino stream.
They have warned the locals from cutting the water pipe for bricklaying practices during dry seasons saying anybody that will be the culprit will be held liable for their act.
