The Water Resource Management Authority (WARMA) has called for enhanced collaboration with the Media in the country to ensure that reporting on water related issues is factual and impactful.

This is aimed at information dissemination in protecting water resources across the country. 

Speaking in a speech read for her by WARMA Water Resources Management and Information Director, Frank Nyoni, during a Media engagement workshop organised by WARMA at Legacy Resort today, WARMA Acting Director General, Misozi Lumpa says there is need for the media to collaborate with WARMA in water resource management.

ZANIS reports that Ms Lumpa stated that it is the work of the media as well as journalists that the WARMA’s mandate, policies as well as interventions can be meaningfully conveyed to the public in the wake of climatic change.

“Collaborating with the Media in order to raise awareness of these developments is necessary, ” she said.

Ms Lumpa noted that WARMA has come up with various technological systems in the wake of climate change such as the customised early warning flooding system that aims at saving lives and agricultural produce through timely evacuation in cases of floods.

“The authority is also applying technology such as development of systems to strengthen and enhance our ability to monitor water levels and quality as well as providing access to climate information, enabling stakeholders to plan and prepare their farming activities,” she said.

She said managing the country’s water resources is crucial for ensuring long term environmental sustainability, public health, social equity among others.

Ms Lumpa added that with the current climatic changes and water resources are becoming unpredictable so there is need for proper management of these water bodies through a holistic approach.

“This will among other provisions see the reduction of the water permitting period to promote business efficiency and address the Inadequacies in the law providing for water resources management in the country,” she said.

Ms Lumpa further appealed to the media to join hands with the authority in protecting and preserving water resources by raising awareness of the issues highlighted.