Plans are underway to construct a wastewater treatment plant and a biomass industrial park at Otjiwarongo to respond to the town's growing population.

This was revealed by Mayor Kandiwapa Shivute at the council's year-end meeting held at Otjiwarongo.

Shivute says the number of inhabitants at Otjiwarongo has grown to about 45 thousand, hence the need to upgrade the oxidation ponds.

The plant will have the capacity to hold more than 10 thousand cubic meters of wastewater.