adminRunesu Gwidi Masvingo Correspondent
Mwenezi Rural District Council, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the Zimbabwe Republic Police, has launched a clampdown against the sale of unlicensed bottled water that is rampant across the district.
Council wants the sale of unlicensed bottled water to stop amid fears of diseases as people may end up drinking contaminated water.
The development comes as an acute water shortage has hit the arid district after most of the 2 000 boreholes sunk by council dried up because of depletion of the water table.
Of late, there has been a proliferation of vendors selling unlicensed bottled water at growth points and business centres across the district.
Mwenezi District Medical officer Dr Itai Matibiri yesterday said they had joined hands with council and ZRP to flush out vendors who sell the unlicensed bottled water.
He said Government wanted to avert the outbreak of diseases such as typhoid and cholera.
“The fight to prevent the sale of contaminated bottled water by mobile vendors is not only the responsibility of the Ministry of Health and Child Care,” he said.
“It demands a multi-sectoral approach for the Government to accomplish it, hence we decided to join hands with the police and the local authority to bring the culprits to book.”
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