Dar es Salaam, April 25 -- DODOMA: UPON completion of the ongoing climate resilient water supply scheme project in Simiyu Region, about 700,000 people will benefit, the House was told yesterday.

Implemented by the Ministry of Water, the project seeks to tap water from Lake Victoria to the districts of Busega, Bariadi and Itilima in the region.

Deputy Minister for Water, Engineer Kundo Mathew told the National Assembly yesterday that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had already agreed to provide 400bn/- for the implementation of the project.

He was responding to a supplementary question posed by Special Seats legislator, Minza Mjika who had expressed her dismay over the project, charging that it had kept on dilly-dallying for many years, s...