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Water woes that have hit Chitungwiza for over two weeks now are set to ease as council has finished repairing the pump that supplies water from Harare to the town that had broken down. Chitungwiza Municipality public relations manager Mr Zephania Mandirahwe yesterday said they had finished working on the pump and water was expected to flow starting with lower areas.
“We have completed repairing the water pump that supply water from Harare to Chitungwiza and right now residents who live in the lower areas are beginning to receive tap water,” he said.
Mr Mandirahwe said people should get tap water at least once a week as they used to do before the crisis.
He said the major challenge they were facing was that they were receiving low capacities of water which was not enough to pump to all the areas of Chitungwiza.
“The major challenge we are facing now is that of lower pumping pressure,” said Mr Mandirahwe.
“We used to receive about 30 mega-litres of water per day, but now we only receive about 10 to 12 mega-litres of water per day which is not sufficient to distribute to all the areas.
“As we speak, we have reduced pressure in Zengeza in order to try and increase pressure so that we can be able to pump water into our water tanks in Seke Unit G.
“We can only supply water to high level areas when these tanks are filled with water and that’s what we are now working on in order to restore water to higher ground areas,” he said.
Chitungwiza residents last week said they were regretting voting MDC-T councillors in the July 31 harmonised elections after no improvement was witnessed in the shortage of water that continues to haunt the council.
MDC-T dominated the urban councils for the last five years, but their administration was characterised by corruption and shoddy service delivery.
Some of the councillors were dismissed for corruption.
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