National Water and Sewerage Cooperation (NWSC) has been nominated in the 2017 African Utility of the Year Awards, under the Water Utility of the Year category. This becomes the third time the utility company is nominated the awards, which bring together 6000 water and energy professionals.

According to the document obtained by ChimpReports, this year’s awards will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa. Also nominated in the awards is the NWSC Managing Director Dr Eng Silver Mugisha as a finalist for Outstanding Contribution and the NWSC Director Business and scientific services Dr. Rose Kaggwa, under the category of outstanding woman of the year. It should be noted that NWSC has so far scooped two awards for the years: 2014/2015 and 2015/2016.

Thus, NCWSC was awarded the prestigious "Water leaders Award 2017 " at the Global Water Leaders forum in Madrid, Spain. The award recognizes water utilities that have contributed significantly towards improving services despite challenges faced. Other utilities nominated for the award included: Ghana Water Company, Khulna Water Authority in Bangladesh and Water Authority of Fiji.