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Lilongwe Water Board was incorporated as an independent statutory corporation in 1995 but commenced business in 1947 working as a municipal entity under the Lilongwe City Council (LCC). Lilongwe Water Board is responsible for the provision of potable water and is supposed to provide sanitation services in Lilongwe City and surrounding areas.

LWB customers include domestic, institutional, industrial as well as commercial. Lilongwe City has a population of around 1,200,000 and the Board currently serves about 85% of the population.

LWB has about 89,000 metered customers (12,000 of them are prepaid water customers), and more than 1000 water Kiosks (communal water selling points) within the City. LWB has a water distribution network of circa 2 000km, 12 reservoirs and water towers, and 8 water pumping stations.

The Board has two main Treatment Plants, TW I and TW II with a combined capacity of about 125,000 cubic meters per day, however, due to system bottlenecks, the Board is able to produce about 105,000 cubic meters of water per day.

Awards
LWB was awarded as Government of Malawi (GoM) parastatal of the year in 2016, African Water Utility of Year (2017 and 2019).

Water Treatment Process
Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) supplies water of acceptable quality which is produced based on internationally proven drinking water quality guidelines. LWB adopted standards set by World Health Organization (WHO) and Malawi Standards-MS 214.

However, in 2017 the Board was involved in a controversy following the supply of contaminated water to residence of Area 18. The water was contaminated with sewerage spillage. In 2020 the High Court sitting in Lilongwe found Lilongwe Water Board not guilty of any wrong doing and subsequently pardoned the Board of the charges of supplying contaminated water to customers. However, Lilongwe City Council and Malawi Housing Corporation have been charged to compensate the affected residence.