Through its quick impact project programme, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, is providing a supply of clean water to violence-affected communities across the country.

Residents of Munuki community on the outskirts of capital Juba, relied on water drawn by hand from a well that was often contaminated. With the construction of a new water system, funded by UNMISS, residents now have access to clean water on a turn of a tap.

While the new water system will provide water to 8000 internally displaced people living in the area and 200 host community households, which have been strained, at times, by the limited access to scarce resources such as water, food, and firewood. 

Munuki is not the only community that will benefit from a new water supply. 
UNMISS is working with the South Sudanese Government and non-governmental organizations to provide similar solar powered systems and other vital infrastructure across the country so that displaced people can return to their homes to live safely and with dignity.