The Gibeon Village Council has achieved 90% of its ambition to eliminate the bucket toilet system.

The Council's acting CEO, Rehabeam Amukoto, revealed this in an interview with nbc News. 

Amukoto says the council expects to complete the N$2 million sewer reticulation project by the end of this month to improve sanitation. 

Upon completion, about 60 houses in the village's Lukas Stephanus section will be connected to the sewer reticulation network. 

The council has also completed a septic tank project at a cost of N$300,000, which served some houses that previously used the bucket system. 

"First we had a bucket system, so those houses were not connected to the sewer system, and we also had an old-time kind of, we called it, not a bucket system, but the one with the pressure, but it is an old system that is no longer functional."

The council has also embarked on an electrification project at the cost of N$1.2 million to connect some houses to the electricity grid and street lights. 

The sewer and electrification projects are funded by the government, but more funding is required to service the land.

In the same vein, he encouraged property developers to invest in housing in the village.

"There is so much demand for land, service land, actually; there are plus or minus 700 people on the waiting list who want erven, but then the council has no service land to give to the people."

There is also road construction and upgrading in the village.