Blantyre Water Board is a parastatal organization established and reconstituted under the Malawi Water Works Act No. 17 of 1995 to supply potable water for commercial, industrial, institutional and domestic use in the supply area of Blantyre City and surrounding areas. Its mission is to provide reliable and affordable water supply services to customers whilst effectively contributing to the development of the national economy and sustenance of the environment.
BWB extracts its water from Shire River (an outlet of Lake Malawi) at Walker’s Ferry about 40 kilometres away and 800m below Blantyre City. As BWB’s main treatment plant, it provides water to about 85% of Blantyre City’s population of 1.4 million for domestic, institutional, commercial and industrial purposes from a daily production of 78,000,000 litres. BWB also has Mudi Treatment Works which produces about 8,000,000 litres daily. Blantyre Water Board supplies water to Blantyre City and other surrounding areas that include Bvumbwe, Chileka, Lunzu, Chiradzulu, Limbe and Mapanga.
BWB has four broad categories of customers namely; domestic, industrial, institutional and commercial customers. Currently BWB has about 40,000 customers. BWB registers an average of 87 connections every month. Currently, there are four physical pay-points currently in use and these are; Chichiri Shopping Mall opposite PUMA Filling Station, Limbe Zone Offices in Limbe (within CEAR Offices), Peoples Supermarket in Blantyre and Kameza Roundabout. Customers can also pay their bills through National Bank of Malawi,First Merchant Bank,NBS Bank, Ecobank and Standard Bank.
Company Details
- Employees
- 246
- Founded
- -
- Address
- Off Makata Road, Blantyre,malawi 312225,malawi
- Industry
- Utilities
- NAICS
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UtilitiesElectric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
- Website
- https://www.bwb.mw
- HQ
- Blantyre, Malawi
- Competitors
- Lilongwe Water Board, African Development Bank Group, Construction Sector Transparency Initiative - Malawi, Illovo Sugar Malawi plc, Northern Region Water Board, Malawi Water and Sanitation Project-1, Building Education Foundations through Innovation and Technology (BEFIT) Programme, Castel Malawi Limited, JTI, The Reserve Bank of Malawi.
Blantyre Water Board Questions
Blantyre Water Board's website is https://www.bwb.mw
Blantyre Water Board's LinkedIn profile is https://mw.linkedin.com/company/blantyre-water-board
Blantyre Water Board has
246 employees.
View email and phone details for 246
employees at Blantyre Water Board.
Blantyre Water Board's industry is
Utilities
Blantyre Water Board's top competitors are
Lilongwe Water Board,
African Development Bank Group,
Construction Sector Transparency Initiative - Malawi,
Illovo Sugar Malawi Plc,
Northern Region Water Board,
Malawi Water And Sanitation Project-1,
Building Education Foundations Through Innovation And Technology (Befit) Programme,
Castel Malawi Limited,
Jti,
The Reserve Bank Of Malawi.
Blantyre Water Board's categories are Utilities
Blantyre Water Board's founding year is 1929
