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Harare residents yesterday demanded an immediate solution to the city’s growing water problems.
The State has directed that boreholes be drilled in Chitungwiza following a realisation that Harare cannot provide enough water to the satellite town.
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Harare health services director Dr Prosper Chonzi said while the city had contained the typhoid in Tafara, “it was too early to celebrate” because the disease’s incubation period is 21 days.
Residents urged the city authorities to stop “ruralising urban centres”.
Mrs Veronica Masaire of Tafara suggested that the city should approve the use of Blair toilets in the suburb because of the water shortages.
Mrs Catherine Dumbura of the same suburb said women suffered the most as they have to travel long distances to fetch water.
“Those with nappies are in trouble. They have to go into the vleis and do their laundry at most three times a day,” she said.
Mrs Damares Chari said schoolchildren were being asked to use home toilets because school facilities were blocked and in bad condition.
It was observed that at some wells, residents were simply ignoring the basics of hygiene as soapy water found its way back into the wells.
Women did their laundry barely two metres away from the water sources. Some of the laundry included soiled baby nappies.
Mrs Esina Road of New Tafara said that the well she was drawing water from was the safest in the suburb.
“We drink this water. We do not boil it,” she said.
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