adminPresenting oral evidence to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Local Government, Rural and Urban Development on the state of water supplies in Harare, Dr Mahachi said the two transformers were restored on Tuesday.
He said this resulted in Morton Jaffray waterworks being able to run six pumps supplying 500 mega litres of water a day up from the previous 250 mega litres a day.
“Now we are running full capacity. We are actually running six big pumps as we speak, which is more than 500 mega litres of water per day and we think we will maintain the situation stable,” he said.
Dr Mahachi said the impact of increased pumping capacity would result in lesser supply interruptions in most high density suburbs and sporadic supplies in low density areas.
According to the council’s new water supply schedule Mabvuku and Tafara were now receiving water five days a week.
Chikurubi was now receiving water four days a week while Mbare and most western suburbs were now getting water all the time except for Gunhill in Dzivaresekwa, Budiriro 4 and 5, Glen View 8 and Hatcliffe.
Dr Mahachi said these suburbs were receiving sporadic water supplies during the day but they were getting water in the evening.
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