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The Herald, August 4, 1983
SIXTEEN boreholes have been cleaned out and six new ones drilled at Muzvezve, Bururu, and Ngezi clinics and Mamina Rural Service Centre, the Deputy Minister of Water Resources and Development, Cde Joseph Kaparadza, said in Mhondoro at the weekend.
Speaking at Mamina Business Centre, he said consultants had been appointed by the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority to investigate the possibility of building a weir for irrigation on the Ngezi River, a few kilometres upstream in the Mwenezi Range.
His ministry had also contracted Interconsult of Norway for a national master plan for rural water supply and sanitation to give them systematic guidance on the availability, reliability and quality of national water resources and sanitation facilities and the variations in demands throughout the rural areas.
LESSONS FOR TODAY
- Boreholes are a rich source of water. The water from boreholes is normally protected and free from contamination in most instances, which makes it ideal for drinking.
- Sinking of boreholes in rural areas is increasingly becoming a necessity at a time when traditional water sources are either drying up or being contaminated.
- One of the developmental issues that the Government is seized with is the drilling of boreholes in the rural areas under the Presidential Rural Development Programme where the drilling rigs are being deployed to different parts of the country under Zinwa.
- Over 700 villages have so far benefited from the scheme which is targeting at least 35 000 villages by 2025.
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