adminAbigail Mawonde Herald Reporter
HARARE City Council is pushing for a joint venture with a local company for the supply of potable water to northern suburbs drawing the resource from Gletwyn Dam.
Northern suburbs like Glen Lorne, Glenwood and Shawasha Hills are expected to start receiving regular water supplies once the agreement is operationalised.
According to the Business Management Committee meeting minutes held mid-June, council wants the deal urgently sealed.
“The Committee considered a report (12th May 2015 circulated with the Agenda) by the Town Clerk on a proposal to enter into a Joint Venture Agreement with Struxure Investments to draw potable water from Gletwyn Dam and supply the Glen Lorne Glenwood, Shawasha Hills and the new Gletwyn Housing Project.
“A proposal to utilise the dam water for domestic consumption was brought up resulting in a preliminary feasibility study being carried out and it was concluded that the project was implementable.
The average daily water supply from the dam was two mega litres,” reads the minutes.
The committee mandated the town clerk to conclude negotiations and sign a Memorandum of Understanding and Memorandum of Agreement within a month.
The project is expected to draw water from the dam to a treatment plant.
The plant would be installed at the dam and water pumped into the Grange Reservoir.
Struxure will provide a pump house and water treatment plant while council offers the existing water distribution infrastructure and land for the construction of the water treatment plant.
The parties would share profits from water sales.
Profit sharing would be based on capital contributions by each party to the deal.
Perennial water shortages have dogged northern suburbs for years.
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