Chronicle Editor
Flora Fadzai Sibanda
The Bulawayo water crisis has worsened, with some suburbs going for weeks without a drop from taps, following reduced raw water pumping to the city as a result of a fault that occurred at Ncema Pumping Station.
The city’s suburbs are supposed to get water two times every week as the city council battles to preserve dwindling supplies in the city’s supply dams.
The latest development is forcing residents to spend long hours in queues at boreholes and unsafe streams, as the country battles a Cholera outbreak.
People carrying water containers have become a regular sight in most parts of the city.
Mr Lyod Ndlovu a resident in Entumbane told the Chronicle that the suburb has spent two weeks without running water.
“I am going so l can get water for my elderly parents. Today l did not go to work because l could not leave them in a house that has no water as that would increase chances of them getting sick,” said Mr Ndlovu.
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