Epileptic water supply in Molyko, BUEA

By Boris Esono in Buea

Population of Molyko, Buea suffer to get drinkable water

Water has become a scarce commodity in some areas in the Buea municipality with Molyko and Great Soppo being the most affected. Persons in these areas have turned to rationing water in order to cope with the arising situation.

With the rapidly growing population in Molyko and other parts of Buea, water scarcity has been a major problem to persons in general and students in particular living in student hostels (mini-cites).

                A final year student of the department of Sociology and Anthropology at UB, Komando Grace, who talked to this reporter, said crowd aloud about the epileptic water supply in her mini-cite.

                “At times we go for two days without water. When the water comes the pressure is so low and it would not flow for long enough to permit us to fill containers. Yet, we pay very high water bills. This affects our studies as at times one cannot bathe on time for classes or wash their clothes,” she lamented.

                For her part, IjangNgute says the water crisis disturbs her from doing her laundry, cooking food and taking her bath. She usually has water after a day and goes four days without water.

                Achidi Cyril, a biochemistry major says he is not quite disappointed with the flow in Molyko because he often has water but his friends often complain of water crisis and during this period they get water from streams (Ndongo) and sometimes come to U.B to carry water.

According one official at the SNEC office Buea, "water crisis in Molyko is general due to the increase in the population while the supply has not been increased at the SNEC office. He says they have only two main sources of water in Buea which includes a stream at the SNEC office and the other around the governor’s office". These two streams are used to supply water to some parts of Buea while others do make use of community water. During the dry season the water supply from one stream travels about 800 kilometers   while in the rainy season it is 3,300 kilometers" He added

                With all this issues, individuals are hoping some changes are effectuated to ease dependency. The situation has even let some people to make use of water in UB which the administration has barred making it difficult for even students to drink water in school.