He however, highlighted a few which include the Lobatse dam, and the support infrastructure, which he said currently supplies 22 villages in Tswapong North; the Maun water treatment plant, which moved Maun from water supply deficit to surplus; the Malwelwe water augmentation scheme which moved Molepolole from water supply deficit to surplus; the Goodhope water supply augmentation, which he said has significantly improved water situation in Goodhope; the Middlepits cross border supply which he said has improved water supply situation in the Middlepits cluster and finally the connection of an additional borehole at Selokolela and has improved water supply situation in Kanye and Moshupa villages.
However, the minister said that the greater Gaborone area is experiencing a serious drought due to poor rains in the region over the past two to three seasons, resulting in Gaborone dam levels declining to a very critical and unprecedented low level of 10%. He said that the decline of the dam level has invariably resulted in a huge reduction in the rate of abstraction from the nominal 84 million litres a day to 48.
