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“It is sad that the city’s water situation is so bad, but it was going to be good to afford our residents uninterrupted water supplies during the festive season.
“We hope that we will receive substantial rains to boost the city’s water supplies in the near future,” said Clr Moyo.
He said the local authority came a long way in trying to solve the water challenges faced by the city and was satisfied that they had completed the year despite the problems.
“We are grateful that the residents bore with us during these times and we wish them well during the festive season,” said Clr Moyo.
The local authority recently increased the water-shedding period to four from three days a week in all suburbs as water levels in the remaining supply dams continued to dwindle.
When water shedding was first introduced at the end of July it was two days a week.
The Mtshabezi-Umzingwane pipeline that is largely viewed as the short-term solution to Bulawayo’s water problems has missed so many completion deadlines, that the city fathers have become sceptical about relying on it.
The city has since decided to push for the speedy completion of the duplication of the Insiza pipeline to be able to draw more water from the city’s largest dam, which holds about 80 percent of Bulawayo’s water.
The permanent solution is the National Matabeleland Zambezi Water project, which has been on the drawing board for 100 years.
The Minister of Water Resources Management and Development, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, last month assured the region that the project would be completed in three years, following the securing of funding from China.
Online Reporter