Jinja
Eastern Region, Uganda · Population 292,386
Tools
What power and water cost, and where the power is out now. The short rains are running, so the rain page sits up here until December. The taps and lakeshore boards are below.
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What Your Yaka Buys
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What Your Water Costs
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Is the power out?
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Where the rains stand
Are the taps dry?
A neighbour-reported board of where the water is out right now, so you can tell whether it is just your tap or the whole area — with NWSC's lines to report a supply problem.
Is the lakeshore flooding?
A neighbour-reported board of where the lake has come up over the quarters right now — so families on the lakeshore and islands can tell each other where the water is, with the emergency numbers to call.
What should this trip cost?
Neighbour-reported fares for the trips Jinja people actually take — the median of what residents say they recently paid, because nobody publishes a fare table for the town.
Markets & trade order
Where the 2026 trade-order enforcement, the court freeze and the relocation plans stand — dated and neutral.
Common questions
Power cuts, water, garbage, the 2026 trade order and floods — answered straight, with dates.
Who to call
Council, water, power, hospital and police — every number checked against an official page.
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Changelog
- Town updateThe town page leads with what power and water cost
- UpdatedA correction on the taxi-park court case
- UpdatedYaka rates moved to ERA's October–December schedule
- UpdatedA new page: what your water costs
- New toolWhat should this trip cost?
- New toolWhat your Yaka buys
- New toolShipped a lakeshore flood board — is the water up in your quarter?
- Town updateAdded a sketch of the Nile leaving Lake Victoria
- New toolA neighbour board for when the taps run dry
- UpdatedMarkets & trade order: added the Source of the Nile redevelopment
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