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FOREWORD

Day way back in 1993 and later, through make necessary adjustments.
the Water Services Association of Malawi
(WASAMA), when in 2009 we started Let us, as a sector do a joint soul searching
celebrating the day through various events so that these World Water Day celebrations
including a National Water Conference. and the National Water Conferences
Let us also reflect on the achievements should not just be merry-making events
registered in the sector since our whose resolutions and recommendations
independence. only end up in beautifully bound booklets
without real action on the ground. Let
However, it would be of little help to us, as a sector do a joint soul searching
this country if we only reflect on the and have an analytical look at the past
achievements and celebrate, we have to 53 years to see if we are satisfied with the
also look at the challenges that have been journey so far or we wish we could have
hindering us in our quest to do more in been miles ahead. As we have been saying,
the sector. success relies strongly on collaborative
efforts, and as a sector we cannot develop
Since 2009 Malawi has been holding unless there is collaboration amongst
World Water Day celebration annually, ourselves; as government we are there to
under various local themes, as a means of still wholeheartedly support the sector
focusing our attention on the importance through provision of policy direction and
Distinguished reader, I would like to welcome of freshwater in relation to our national guidance.
you to yet another edition of the Water Sector needs and advocating for the sustainable
MAGAZINE. Let me express my profound management of freshwater resources. Once again, allow me to acknowledge
gratitude for the support that this magazine has those organizations and companies
been getting so far from all the players in the Water, During the National Water Conferences, that continue to support the water and
Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector more every year various experts and players sanitation sector in the country and
especially the non-governmental organizations in the sector have been banging heads those that have rendered support to
who have been the main contributors to this to come up with solutions to a number the production of this edition of the
magazine while others have supported us through of challenges affecting the sector and Water Sector MAGAZINE. This is your
advertisements. magazine and I would like to call upon
subsequently draw resolutions and
recommendations that could be followed every one of us in the sector to support it
This edition of the Water Sector MAGAZINE to improve our situation. for its sustainability.
comes just months after Malawi joined the rest
of the world to celebrate the World Water Day This is the time that we need to reflect on Lastly, I would also want to thank you the
on 22nd March when we also had our National what we have learnt from all the themes reader for the support. On behalf of the
Water Conference in Mangochi. The edition put forward during this important day. We Malawi Government, I say thank you so
also coincides with the celebration of the 53rd indeed need to look back and take stock on much to you all. I am hopeful that you will
Anniversary of our National Independence on 6th our progress. Again, we need to look back enjoy reading this edition of the Water
July. It is in this regard that, as the mother Ministry on the resolutions and recommendations Sector MAGAZINE.
responsible for the water sector in the country, we made through the years and see how as
regard this particular edition of the Water Sector a nation we have benefited from such I, on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture,
MAGAZINE as significant to our national efforts resolutions and recommendations. Irrigation and Water Development and all
to develop the WASH sector and move towards the players in the WASH sector, would like
our achievement of the Sustainable Development As players in the sector we also have to to join all Malawians as we commemorate
Goals in particular Goal Number Six, which looks assess ourselves as regards to how much 53rd Anniversary of our National
at provision of safe and clean drinking water to all. Independence.
we have contributed to the development
of the sector as well as to the development
Let us take this particular edition of the magazine of the nation as a whole since our Erica Maganga
as an opportunity for all of us to reflect on the independence 53 years ago. Let us SECRETARY FOR AGRICULTURE,
achievements registered so far since Malawi joined honestly look at where we have failed and IRRIGATION AND WATER
the rest of the world to observe the World Water DEVELOPMENT

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