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The top of Jinja's page had three neighbour-report boards on it — power, taps, lakeshore — and none of them had carried a report in the three months before this review. Three empty boards is a page that answers nothing to someone arriving on it for the first time. So the top now carries the two calculators, which answer the moment the page loads: what a Yaka token buys, and what your water costs. The power board stays up there, because power is the loudest thing on this town's record and the board is no use if nobody can find it to post to. The short rains are running until December, and they are what raises the lake, so the rain page joins them until then. The taps and lakeshore boards have moved down the page rather than away. They work the moment somebody posts to them.
Our markets and trade-order page said the High Court's freeze on the taxi-park kiosk evictions ran to 7 May 2026. That was a misreading, and it has been corrected on that page and in the common questions. 7 May was a hearing date, not an expiry date. The Attorney General's lawyers had asked for more time to file a response, and the court adjourned to that day to rule on whether the temporary injunction should stand. We have looked again and found no report of what was decided, so the position has been unconfirmed for five months rather than settled — the page now says that. The page also now leads with something it had only implied: the order covered the Taxi Park and the Bus Park, and nowhere else. Enforcement elsewhere in Jinja carried on from the morning after it was issued. Whether you are inside the court's protection depends entirely on where your kiosk stands, so that belongs at the top rather than three paragraphs down. Added as well: the Inspectorate of Government halted the Source of the Nile eviction in August 2025 and then lifted its own halt that September, which is what the city's April 2026 notice rests on — the part traders there most often ask about.
Nobody publishes matatu or boda fares for Jinja, so this board is built from residents' own numbers. Sign in, say what you actually paid for a trip, and the board shows the middle figure from recent reports. It starts empty on purpose — putting our own guess up first would only teach the board to repeat it back.
How many units your money should give you at the rates ERA approved for July to September, where the money goes before it reaches the meter, and a check on a purchase you have already made. Units 81 to 150 cost less each than units 16 to 80 — that step is deliberate, and it makes cooking on electricity cheaper than the headline rate suggests.
When the lake rises, neighbours can now tell each other where the water has come up — Masese Landing Site, Walukuba, Lwabitooke and Kisima — so you can see whether it is just your street or the whole area, with the emergency numbers to call. It is residents reporting to each other, not a gauge; a report clears itself after about a day.
The town page now carries a colored-pencil sketch of the broad channel where the White Nile leaves Lake Victoria at Jinja, with a wooden fishing canoe resting near the bank.
Jinja already had a board for power cuts; now there is one for water. Tap the area you are in to report dry taps and see whether neighbours nearby are reporting the same, so you can tell if it is just your tap or the whole area. It is run by residents, with NWSC's toll-free lines for reporting a real supply problem. Because the Masese pumps share the grid, a long power cut often takes the water too — the page says so, and both boards now lead the Jinja page.
The board now tracks the 1 April 2026 notice for traders at the Source of the Nile to vacate ahead of a redevelopment — a separate matter from the street-vending trade order. The taxi-park court position after 7 May 2026 is still unverified.
Jinja's long and short rains, the last 30 days against the 30-year average, and the week ahead — with what heavy rain means for the lake, the power and the taps.
When the power goes, tap your area to report it and see whether neighbours nearby are reporting the same cut — so you can tell if it's just your house or the whole area. It's run by residents, not UEDCL, and shows UEDCL's free fault line and outage page alongside. Reports clear themselves after a few hours.
A neutral, dated board of where the 2026 trade-order enforcement, the taxi-park court freeze and the relocation proposals stand. Court matters move — the page says when it was last reviewed.
Straight, dated answers on power cuts, the Masese water link, garbage, the 2026 trade order and lakeshore flooding.
One page of working numbers — the city council, NWSC, UEDCL, the referral hospital and four police stations — each read off an official page on 11 June 2026.
ERA approved the fourth-quarter electricity tariff on 1 October and left every domestic rate exactly where it was: a unit still costs Shs 919.69 with VAT, the cooking step between units 81 and 150 is still Shs 486.16, and the service charge is still Shs 3,360 plus VAT. The page had been carrying the July–September schedule, which expired on 30 September, so it has been moved across and now links the new one. We also took three contact routes off the page. It had been offering two extra toll-free numbers, a WhatsApp number and an email address for UEDCL; none of them appears anywhere on UEDCL's own site today. What is published, and what is now on the page, is the toll-free line 0800 203 088, the office line +256 312 330 300, and WhatsApp on 0772 285 285. A number that looks like an answer and rings nobody is worse than no number.
Jinja now has a water page to sit beside the Yaka one. Put in how much water you used in a month and it works out the bill at NWSC's own domestic rate — Shs 4,433 a cubic metre before VAT, as published in August 2026. Underneath it, the thing most households actually meet: what that rate comes to for a 20-litre jerrycan. Shs 105 on a domestic meter, Shs 25 at a public standpipe. A vendor who carries water to your door is charging for the carrying too, and nobody publishes that part — but now there is a published figure to hold it against. Two things the page says plainly rather than quietly assuming. NWSC publishes no fixed monthly charge anywhere we could find, and we looked in its tariff guide, its customer FAQs and its Customer Charter — so the page is built on that, and says that an absence in the published record is not the same as proof. And sewerage is billed separately for properties on the public sewer, with no rate published we can find, so the page estimates the water only and tells you so.
A city of about 292,000 at the source of the Nile, where the loudest everyday questions are about power that cuts out, water that stops when the power does, and a 2026 trade order that has moved hundreds of vendors with the courts still weighing in. The first three tools stick to what we could verify, and every page is small, dated and written to be read aloud — radio is how news travels here.