The Department of water and sanitation
The district is endowed with various water resources, which cover about 12% of the total land area. A large percentage of the domestic water supply facilities in the district utilize ground water. These include springs, Gravity flow schemes and Boreholes. It is currently estimated that there are 1,167 protected up from 1,136 and 183 boreholes and about 1,450 GFS taps available for rural water supply with average access to safe water coverage being estimated at between 80 – 85%. The average functionality of safe water sources in the district stands at 63% down from 76%. There is need to improve on this percentage to over 80% if the objective of providing safe water for all is to be achieved. Water supply systems that use surface water include: the National Water and Sewerage Corporation plant, which supplies mainly Kasese Town Council; the Katwe-Kabatooro Urban water supply system which supplies Katwe Town council and Bwera Water supply which serves the 3 sub counties of Bwera, Karambi and Nyakiyumbu. All the three systems have treatment processes with Bwera having the simplest treatment process consisting of Roughing filters, Sedimentation and Rapid sand filters; the other two have chemical treatment processes.
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