Gov't To Deliver Chobe-Palapye Water Pipeline Via PPP

Bonolo Khumotaka
Bonolo Khumotaka

After spending billions of pula on delivering major water infrastructure in recent years, government says while eager to deliver the 661km Chobe-Palapye water pipeline in the near future, it decided to deliver the project without parting with a single thebe.

It preferred rather to deliver it through a public private partnership (PPP), which will see the winning contractor, investing its own billions into the project and supplying the water to government at agreed prices.

Speaking to The Monitor at her office in the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services permanent secretary (PS) Bonolo Khumotaka said along with the Chobe-Palapye water pipeline, the Glen Valley water reclamation project, which will essentially reclaim the affluent water for human consumption, will also be delivered via the PPP model.

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