Good news for 200 villagers of Yanuca Island

Two hundred villagers of Yanuca Island have are overwhelmed to now have a reliable, clean and safe water supply.

$93,547 project by the Water Authority of Fiji saw the repair of forty‑six rota tanks, eleven cement water tanks in the village, five in the Yanuca Island Primary School compound, and the installation of twelve 5,000‑litre water tanks.

Talica Leno who is originally from Namatakula Village says that a reliable water source has been an issue for them over the years.

Leno says that villagers used to rely on the little well for their washing, cooking and drinking adding that they also used to ration water and ask each other for a bucket of water, just to go about their daily lives.

She says that for the last 50 years, the whole village used to rely on one water tank located next to the village church and after the assistance from the Water Authority of Fiji this is now a thing of the past.