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Zimbabwe: Threat of Disease From Unsafe Water

Many neighbourhoods had dug wells after the collapse of water and sanitation infrastructure during the economic implosion, creating ideal conditions for the proliferation of cholera.
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Cholera breeding grounds.

  • Zimbabwe:   Threat of Waterborne Disease From Unsafe Water

    UNIRIN, 15 April 2011

    Jennifer Madongonda, 43, shares a seven-roomed house with three other families in the low-income suburb of Budiriro, about 15km southwest of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Seven… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Harare Water Unsafe - Magadza

    The Herald, 30 March 2011

    A University of Zimbabwe researcher, Professor Chris Magadza, has said treated water supplied to Harare residents does not meet minimum World Health Organisation standards. Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Japan Builds Low-Cost Toilets

    Zimbabwe Standard, 13 February 2011

    JAPAN has poured in close to US$3 million towards a water and sanitation programme that will see the construction of 580 pit latrines and 400 boreholes in five districts. Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Blocked Toilets, Sewage Rivulets in Kadoma's Ngezi

    Zimbabwe Standard, 3 April 2011

    Anna Kuruneta,a mother of four from one of Kadoma's oldest locations known as Ngezi, does not remember the time their toilets last worked properly since they started staying in the… Read more »

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