The Minister of Water and Environment Hon Sam Cheptoris, AFD Director General, French Ambassador to Uganda H.E Jules-Armand Aniambossou, Germany Ambassador to Uganda H.E Mathias Schauer, NWSC Board Chairman Eng. Dr. Prof Badru. M. Kiggundu, NWSC MD Dr. Eng Silver Mugisha, Mukono South Area MP and members of the NWSC top management are inspecting the recently completed Katosi Water Treatment Plant.
The plant, with 240million litres per day water production capacity was constructed to add more water to the Kampala Metropolitan Service Area.
The project was jointly funded by Development Partners (EIB, AFD, KFW, EU-ITF), and counterpart funding from the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Water and Environment and NWSC
Katosi will serve over 7.5million people in Kampala, Mukono and Wakiso upto 2040
The plant has a design capacity of 160,000mยณ/day (80,000m3/day + 80,000m3/day), with provision for future expansion to 240,000mยณ/day. The Katosi-Kampala Transmission Mains on the other hand was designed to evacuate and convey all 160,000m3/day produced in Katosi into the Kampala Water supply network.
Main Project Components
Katosi Drinking Water Treatment Plant;
โข500m of DN1500 Off-shore Water Abstraction Pipeline into Lake Victoria (laid on the lake bed at a depth of 11m)
โขIntake Structure and Raw Water Pump station on the shore of Lake Victoria
โขDrinking Water Treatment Plant (DWTP) & Drinking Water Pumping Station (80,000m3/d + 80,000m3/d)
โขDuctile Iron Pumping Transmission Main (10km, DN1400)
โขFour (04) No. Storage Tanks at Nsumba hill, each with a capacity of 10,000m3
โข33kV Power line extension from the new Mukono Industrial Estate Substation to the Katosi DWTP (over 40km)
โขAdministration Office Block, Laboratory, Workshop, Staff Houses
โขInstallation of SCADA and automation of the Plant operations
Katosi-Kampala Transmission Mains
โข39km of DN 1400 ductile iron clear water transmission main from Nsumba reservoir to Namugongo
โข2.3 km of DN 500/600 to existing reservoirs at Mukono and Seeta
โขReinforced concrete water storage reservoir of capacity 15,000 m3 at Sonde
โขBooster station at Namugongo with two duty and one standby water pumps
โข10 km of DN 700 ductile iron clear water pumping main, from Namugongo booster station to the existing Naguru reservoir
โขStaff houses at Sonde reservoir site and Namugongo booster station site.
โขInstallation of SCADA system
The project also has a component to supply water to Katosi, Lugazi town and the surrounding areas.
