The Sunday Mail
Online Reporter
ZIMBABWE joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Water Day on Monday.
The event ran under the theme “Valuing Water”.
However, most suburbs in the country are without running water as city councils are struggling to provide adequate clean and safe water.
For instance, Harare City Council is currently producing 440 megalitres per day against a demand of 1 200 megalitres.
According to Combined Harare Residents Trust, in Harare 60 percent of treated water is lost through water bursts.
“It is sad that the responsiveness of the council to burst water pipes has not been good enough to preserve water as a valuable resource.
“The shortage of this valuable resource has affected the productive time of women and young girls mostly as they are caregivers of the society.
“In most cases, they spent more than three hours at communal boreholes in an effort to access water, which has exposed them to all forms of abuse and harassment by water barons,” reads part of the Combined Harare Residents Trust statement.
CHRA has urged the Government and local authorities to work together to end the water crisis through investing more resources to improve water sources and purification.
