More water for Masvingo residents

Masvingo Bureau
Water supply is likely to improve in Masvingo following the opening of an emergency inlet valve on Lake Mutirikwi last week by divers from the police Sub-Aqua Unit.
Masvingo City Council recently asked police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to dispatch divers to open the emergency valve at Bushmead Waterworks on Lake Mutirikwi.

The valve is opened in cases of extreme emergency and was last opened in 1992 when drought hit the country. Masvingo mayor Councillor Hubert Fidze said: “We paid ZRP US$1 500 for the service and we hope the water situation will get better in the near future because the valve enables us to continue pumping water at the Bushmead waterworks plant.”

Cllr Fidze said despite this developement water supply in the city remained precarious and would only be permanently resolved through significant inflows into Lake Mutirikwi and completion of the city’s water augmentation programme.

He said the council was still pursuing the nearly US$1 million emergency water pumping project that sought to build a pipeline into Lake Mutirikwi’s deeper waters.