The Parliamentary Committee of Natural Resources & Climate Change has invited owners of major resort hotels and lodges in Mangochi to an interface to impress on them on the need to adhere to connect to water supply system of Southern Region Water Board (SRWB). This follows some reluctance by some of the major resort hotels and lodges to connect to SRWB system from the massive investment SRBW, through the government, constructed at Nkhudzi Bay — which was officially opened by President Lazarus Chakwera last year. The reluctance emanates from what the hotels and lodges are claiming that since time immemorial, they invested highly in their own water pumping and purification infrastructure — which they contend that it is tested regularly by Malawi Bureau Standards (MBS), Ministry of Health as well as the Ministry of Tourism.
Representing the hotels and lodges at a meeting that the Parliamentary Committee convened on Friday at Blue Fish Lodge in Mangochi to convince the owners and managers, Memory Kamthunzi — executive director of Malawi Tourism Council — maintained that they see no problem to connect to SRWB system, but their concern was on what they would do with the huge investment they already have. She said several other hotels and lodges connected to SRWB system but others are clinging on to their own investment, justifying that their own systems were being monitored by tight authorities. During the meeting, National Water Resources Authority and SRWB made elaborate .
