adminStorm brews over Insiza Dam
Marvelous Moyo
STAKEHOLDERS in Insiza District, Matabeleland South Province have requested the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to avail an old document of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two parties in 1975 before a new agreement is made for Bulawayo to draw more water from Insiza Dam.
The 1975 MoU was signed by the then Ministry of Water Affairs, BCC and Insiza District after BCC helped Filabusi to construct Insiza Dam.
The document is said to contain information on the role BCC had to play to support developmental projects in Filabusi and also stated the amount of water which the district had to supply Bulawayo with. The city was to draw larger volumes of water than Insiza District from Insiza Dam.
The document is said to be the base used by BCC to draw water from Insiza Dam which now supplies about 90 percent of the city’s water needs.
However, the agreement was made during a time when Insiza District was still small, but now the district has expanded and its population has greatly increased and residents there require more water.
It is said that the request for the 1975 MoU to be availed was prompted by the fact that Insiza District stakeholders felt that BCC did not honour some of the conditions of the agreement hence the need to revisit the agreement.
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