TELECOMMUNICATION

All towns of the region and rural villages of the region have access to mobile network services. The Ethiopian Postal Services Enterprise provides postal services in 15 locations in the region. The region has built 94 mobile and 34 CDMA networking stations. This has made 29 of the Woredas reachable in mobile networking and the total coverage has increased to 92%. About 252(65%) of the rural kebeles have got access to wireless telephone service. The region has made 22 wordas and towns beneficiaries of regular telephone service, 13 towns of V-sat telephone service, and all 32 Woredas (100%) of a broadband network service.

WATER RESOURCE

The Awash River, Mille, and Logia which are tributaries of the Awash River traverse the region. Abbe Bil, Afambo, and Adebel lakes which are connected to the last section of the river Awash are found in the region. The major source of potable water in the region was obtained from 83 deep wells, 671 normal pups, 66 springs, 126 shallow wells, and 362 protected spring water. Access to water coverage is estimated to be 58.41 % (57.13 % and 63.42 %) in rural and urban respectively (NBE,2021).