{"id":73613,"date":"2019-01-25T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T07:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73613"},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T07:22:36","slug":"water-contamination-case-back-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/water-contamination-case-back-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Water contamination case back to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Audrey Kapalamula:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The High Court in Lilongwe has adjourned to January 30 2019 the case in which residents of Area 18 in Lilongwe are demanding compensation for drinking sewer-contaminated water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/twist-to-area-18-sewer-water-case\/\">The case<\/a> is before Justice Ivy Kamanga for mandatory mediation between residents and defendants\u2014Lilongwe City Council (LCC), Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) and Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC).<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Human Rights Forum Executive Director, Chancy Mwalubunju, who is representing the victims, said parties are trying to find an amicable solution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69877\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/area-18-residents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69877\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/area-18-residents-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/area-18-residents-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/area-18-residents-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/area-18-residents.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEEKING JUSTICE\u2014Some of the Area 18 residents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>he said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About 1,300 people want compensation of K4 million each from LCC, LWB and MHC for drinking contaminated water in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The mandatory mediation process started in 2018 after the first defendant, LCC, made a U-turn after the process had earlier collapsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalamula: The High Court in Lilongwe has adjourned to January 30 2019 the case in which residents of Area 18 in Lilongwe are demanding compensation for drinking sewer-contaminated water. The case is before Justice Ivy Kamanga for mandatory mediation between residents and defendants\u2014Lilongwe City Council (LCC), Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) and Malawi Housing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73618,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613\/revisions\/73618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}