The Sunday Mail
Lea Mutanda
GOVERNMENT has successfully installed inline chlorinators in Glen View boreholes in an effort to disinfect water used by residents, which has for some time been suspected to be the source of water borne diseases affecting the suburb.
Glen View was identified as the epicentre of the last cholera outbreak that hit in 2018.
An inline chlorinator is a small device containing water purification chemicals, in this case chlorine, which is installed inside a borehole.
The installation of the inline chlorinators comes at a time residents in Harare rely on boreholes for the precious liquid due to prolonged water cuts by the Harare City Council.
Harare authorities have been rationing water for weeks on end, as the struggle to avail chemicals to purify raw water from Lake Chivero continues.
District Development Fund (DDF) Water Supplies and Maintenance director, Mr Edwin Toriro, told The Sunday Mail that: “Due to uncountable cases of cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea in the country as a whole we have seen it necessary for us to install inline chlorinators in boreholes that we drilled (in Glen View) last month to help combat water borne diseases,” he said.
Mr Toriro also said DDF was in the process of drilling and also rehabilitating boreholes in identified dry areas countrywide.
According to World Health Organisation, water borne diseases account for two million deaths annually worldwide with the majority being in developing countries.
