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Harare City Council has completed repairing valves and pumps that were leaking at the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant as part of efforts to solve the city’s water problems, Harare Water director Engineer Christopher Zvobgo said yesterday.
“We have finished the maintenance works on our pumps and valves that were leaking at the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant and by Monday (today) everything will be back to normal,” he said.
“We finished repairing on Saturday night, although there can be some challenges to other suburbs due to our water supply system everything is expected to be back to normal by tomorrow,” he said.
Harare residents mainly in high density suburbs were experiencing perennial water shortages which the council blamed on machine break downs, leaking pipes and the growing population.
Occasional major pipe bursts were forcing the residents to fetch water from unprotected sources, posing health hazards.
Council warned the residents last week to brace for a dry weekend as it repaired two pumps and two valves that were leaking at the treatment plant.
The refurbishment of the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant is expected to start next month and would mark the end of water problems facing the Harare City.
This comes after the council secured a US$144 million loan from the Chinese Export Import Bank and has already acquired material to be used for the refurbishment of the 60-year-old plant that is producing only 400 mega-litres of water per day when it has the potential to produce 640 mega litres.
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