N$2b needed to bring water to Windhoek

ABOUT N$2 billion is needed immediately to enable underground water to be channelled to Windhoek.

This was said by the agriculture and water ministry’s deputy permanent secretary Abraham Nehemia when he briefed President Hage Geingob and his Cabinet at State House on Tuesday. However, a total of N$24 billion is needed to supply water to the entire country through various ongoing and planned projects, for which N$225 million is already available for the construction of the Neckartal dam, the Noordoewer dam and for the groundwater initiative. Nehemia said the water would have to be immediately pumped from the Karst aquifer in the Grootfontein and Tsumeb area to Windhoek.