The utility has a long-term water supply plan; which includes assessment of water supply sources. It could be ground water or surface water. The study’s scope reaches the radius of 50KM around the city. The project period is intended to be 30-50 years and now the utility prepared the bid document to hire well experienced consultant. The bid document to hire the consultant is under sale.

Regarding the sanitation service, our utility provides to the community, we have 7 vacuum trucks, 3 new and 4 old ones. The utility has 1 slung drying bed on the top of mount Alamura. Besides to utility’s vacuum trucks there are 11 private owned vacuum trucks providing sanitation service to the community. The utility has constructed 77 public and communal toilets in 8 subcities by the support of Second Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project /SUWSSP/ funded by the World Bank.

The drying bed at the top of mount Alamura was not constructed at suitable site. During rainy seasons the ponds of the drying bed fill and overflow occurs and surrounding people at the peripheri of the drying bed are suffering from overflowing sludge.

Therefore, it is planned by SUWSSP to abandon this site and to construct the new fecal sludge treatment plant (FSTP) at Hawela Lida and Finchawa villages, some 14 KM away from the city’s southern part. Nowadays, the bidding process for the construction of FSTP was completed and the contractor was identified, award letter for the contractor was given by the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE). After the execution of compensation payments for project affected people (PAPs), the construction of FSTP for Hawassa city will be commenced.