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to bring to light noticeable issues and development that various partners within the sector are doing across
the country in an effort to improve the sector and ensure that safe and clean water is easily accessible to all
WASAMA Malawians while at the same time improving sanitation for all. The Magazine continue to close the gap for
you our reader on challenges facing the sector and developments that are there as we all journey to achieving
the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This edition looks at and chronicles various developments,
initiatives and interventions by several players in the sector such as new technologies, programmes that ease
Executive Secretary access to water mainly for women and girls, uplifting of the life of the girl-child through improved sanitation,
how agriculture can be turned into a viable business and so many others.
Coming just after World Water Day and the National Water Conference it is also our hope that this edition
will give you time to reflect on the strides that we have made as a nation since we joined the rest of the world
to observe the World Water Day and hold the National Water Conference, which so far have seen a number
of themes coming up, being discussed and upon which resolutions and recommendations are made. As we
celebrate the 53rd Anniversary of our National Independence, It is also our hope that through this edition we
will have time to critically reflect on the successes and challenges in the water sector for the past 53 years and
try to find a formula on how we can ride on the successes to move further forward and use the challenges as a
learning platform to achieve even more successes. As WASAMA we feel we, the various players in Irrigation,
Water Supply and Sanitation could offer much better to Malawians and directly contribute to its development
by far if we could put into use the brilliant strategies and policies that have been drawn for the past 53 years
for the sector.
WASAMA remembers very well the development of the Irrigation, Water and Sanitation communication
strategy under the National Water Development Program II. Being a stakeholder to the development of this
strategic document, WASAMA awaits the day the implementation will take off as we believe that developing
a document and fail to put it into operation will do little help to the development of this nation let alone
achievement of the SDGs. On behalf of the association I would like to call upon different stakeholder to come
up and support implementation of this communication strategy for the betterment of a local Malawian.
Once again, let me point out that this edition has been possible through the support of those who took time to
present their stories and our advertisers; we really appreciate the support that is keeping us going. We keep our
promise to have this as a quarterly edition, we are indeed here to stay, but we expect that you, as our partners
in the sector, will continue being there for us. WASAMA as the hub of water and sanitation sector players has
Dear Reader a mandate to help in shaping the sector’s policy and decisions and we are certain that this magazine would be
an appropriate platform for all the players to contribute towards that mandate.
Welcome once again to this edition of the Water Sector
MAGAZINE, your true mouth piece for Irrigation, Water To our team let me thank you once more for the effort to put together this edition.
and Sanitation in Malawi. This edition has coincided with WASAMA joins the rest of Malawians as we celebrate our 53rd Anniversary of National Independence.
the celebration of the 53rd Anniversary of our National
Independence on 6th July. It is in this regard that, the Water
Services Association of Malawi (WASAMA) considers this a Enjoy the reading!
special edition in all senses. Ben Chakhame
Going by our promise this edition of the Magazine continues
Editorial Team Table of Contents

Page. 4. Southern Region Water Board hosts 2017 WWD

Page. 5. Meter Validation Exercise: wake up call to BWB

Page. 6. Enhancing girls’ education through menstrual hygiene
management

BRIGHT SONANI PRISCILLA MATEYU ENELLESS NYALE Page 7. PumpAid introduces Self-Supply to improve access to
water

Page. 8. Water For People in quest of curbing water salinity

Page. 9. Keeping girls in school through access to safe water

Page. 11. Creating a mass movement on rainwater harvesting

Page. 15. Tsogolo Labwino Project: ADRA borehole water
provision case
VITUMBIKO CLEMENT CHINOKO LAWRENT
MKANDAWIRE KUMCHENGA Page 16. Total Land Care integrated approach to water and
sanitation challenges

Page. 25. WASAMA launches Women in Water-Malawi chapter

Page 27. Celebrating failure: Remembering the Play-Pump

Page 32. Profile Engineer Jacqueline Dias

MACDONALD EDWARD
PHIRI NYIRENDA