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The Minister of State for Midlands, Larry Mavima addressed a meeting and described the situation as worrying because the majority of residents have resorted to unprotected sources of water risking waterborne diseases.
The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is set to release results of a 10-year study on Bulawayo’s underground water whose recommendations, if implemented, will ease the city’s water crisis.
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is rolling out a water kiosk programme to benefit 14 suburbs in high lying areas worst affected by the city’s water crisis, bringing relief to thousands of residents.
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) requires US$22,75 million or $910 million to implement three medium to long term projects to ease the city’s water crisis that has resulted in council implementing a five-day weekly water shedding exercise.
As the water supply situation in Bulawayo continues to worsen, the local authority has called for an urgent water crisis committee meeting to map the way forward.
In more depressing news for Harare residents , the city council has warned that it will continue to cut water supplies even after it completes the refurbishment of its biggest water treatment plant — Morton Jaffray (MJ) — which is expected to increase supplies to both industry and domestic users.
Water woes around most of Harare’s suburbs have resulted in the exploitation of residents who now have to pay to fetch water from government-drilled boreholes.
Harare’s water crisis is set to continue for much longer, after the City Council (HCC) missed the deadline for the refurbishment of its biggest water treatment plant — Morton Jaffray — which has now been extended by nine more months due to a funding crisis.
By Wynne Zanamwe A humanitarian disaster is looming in Gweru as the city has gone for six days without water. A pipe burst at the city’s water treatment plant in Lundi Park suburb has been blamed for the situation. The taps have been dry since Tuesday morning after a Zesa outage and bursting of a […]
By Abednico Siambombe One of my friends during a discussion iterated that we in Zimbabwe need to ask why China our all-weather friend has poured US8illion in Mozambique, US$5billion in Zambia and Malawi, set up a car assembly plant in Springs South Africa yet Zimbabwe gets only US$0.5 billion. We are simply not doing the […]