Ten million Malawians who have no access to potable water in rural areas are expected to benefit from $400 million (or K720 billion) investments from Grow Green, a Malawian-registered company.
This has been disclosed by Minister of Natural Resources and Climate Change Michael Usi after a bilateral meeting with Grow Green officials, who are attending Conference of the Parties (CoP) 28 meetings in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
“We have partnered Grow Green Malawi, a registered company, to rehabilitate 50,000 boreholes, plant 29,000 new boreholes and employ over 5,000 people. The investor is already doing groundwork in Malawi,” Usi said.
He said the project means that the problem of accessing potable water will be easier because more people will benefit.
“I am happy that the attorney general, solicitor general and others [have assured us that they will] expedite the processes,” Usi said.
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Grow Green Director Fabian Collen said the project, which is expected to start in early 2024, has a number of components which will help create more than 5,000 direct jobs as the manufacturing of filters will be done in Malawi and by Malawians.
“About four million water filters will be manufactured in Malawi and the repair of broken boreholes will be done immediately when the borehole has broken down so that rural women do not walk long distances to fetch water” Collen said.
The total investment for the entire project is $400 million over 20 years.
