Some horses do not show any signs of infection.

Signs of infection vary based on the type of parasite.

Horses usually become infected with intestinal parasites when they eat grass or hay contaminated with manure containing parasite eggs or larvae.

The Board guarantees total compliance to those standards to assure supply of potable water to its customers at all times.Ĭustomers are therefore being urged to verify or report any water related issue through a well-established Call-Centre by calling 253 for free, at any time of the day. LWB adopted standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) –MS 214. The Board would like to assure its customers that it will continue to supply them with water of acceptable quality which is based on internationally accepted drinking water quality. Generally, cockroaches do breed in the water septic tanks. LWB is urging customers to always keep their houses clean or fumigate them to eliminate cockroaches or crickets.

The eggs take two weeks to three months to hatch and the worms are later forced out of the tap by the water pressure. When cockroaches/crickets eat up the worms’ eggs, they excrete them inside water taps. Poor hygiene breeds cockroaches or crickets.

The truth of the matter is that, the horsehair worms are as a result of poor hygiene in homes and other environment where there are water taps. Due to chemicals used in treating water including Chlorine, it is impossible for worms or pathogenic microorganisms such as harmful bacteria, viruses or intestinal parasites to survive in our system from production to customers’ taps. Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) would like disperse reports circulating on social media that it is supplying water contaminated with Nematomorpha worms popularly known as Horsehair worms.

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