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Zimbabwe: Bank-Funded Project Boosts Water Supply in Zimbabwe's Second-Largest City
African Development Bank (AfDB), 8 June 2021
Limited investments in water and sanitation infrastructure across Zimbabwe's urban centers in recent times have largely contributed to poor service provision, which has left… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Pupils, Teachers Left Exposed as Bulawayo Cuts Schools Water Supplies
New Zimbabwe, 25 April 2021
PUPILS and teachers at a number of government schools in Bulawayo have been left exposed to communicable diseases after the city council cut water supplies due to failure by the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: 16 Years Still No Water in Mbundane
Kubatana.net, 19 April 2021
For 16 years Mbundane residents in Umguza District within the outskirts of Bulawayo have been hoping to have water connected to their households to no avail. The over 2000 Mbundane… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Water Scheme Best Value for Money
The Herald, 3 March 2021
Bulawayo's water problems are now in sight of solution, with just another two years of rationing and shortages to cope with before 450 million litres of clean water starts flowing… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Gold Panners Diverting Water From Bulawayo Water Supply Dam
New Zimbabwe, 2 March 2021
Gold panners in Umzingwane district in Matabeleland South have been accused of diverting water from Umzingwane Dam catchment areas to their illegal mining activities. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Dam Levels Increase to 53%
New Zimbabwe, 6 February 2021
Bulawayo city dam levels have risen from about 29 percent to 53 percent capacity following heavy rains that have been pounding the country since December last year. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Residents of Bulawayo Suburb Have Not Seen Running Water for Full Year
New Zimbabwe, 21 January 2021
WHILE a majority of Bulawayo residents have to deal with the reality of receiving running water once a week, it is a different story for Ward 27 in Pumula South's Habek high… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Water Woes - So Much More to Fear Than Just Covid-19
New Zimbabwe, 14 December 2020
The recent rains coupled with an ironical shortage of portable water in Bulawayo has presented a slew of health-related fears for schools in Bulawayo, which are already battling to… Read more »
AfDB-Funded Project Boosts Water Supply in Zimbabwe City
Limited investments in water and sanitation infrastructure across Zimbabwe's urban centres in recent times have largely contributed to poor service provision, which has left citizens scrambling for the precious resource. Bulawayo, the country's second-largest city, has not been spared. Frequent droughts in nearby regions worsened the water woes. Bulawayo experienced severe drought from 2018 to 2020, which led to the introduction of a six-day water shedding programme. Before then, the city was already grappling with water pumps installed more than 40 years ago, and were plagued with costly breakdowns, requiring extensive maintenance.
To improve water, sewerage treatment and pump capacity, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has funded the U.S.$33 million Bulawayo Water and Sewerage Services Improvement Project to replace obsolete pumps at Fernhill and Ncema pump stations. The new installations include three pumps at each station, two working in tandem as duty pumps and one standby pump. Funding also supported a supervisory control and data acquisition system, which will control and monitor the new equipment locally and remotely, further supporting the city's vision of being a leading smart urban centre by 2024 through the use of various technologies.
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Illegal gold panning in areas surrounding Bulawayo's supply dams has contributed to perennial water challenges, the city's authorities have said. The local authority had decreed a ... Read more »
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Zimbabweans have been for years scrambling to get enough clean water to drink, prepare meals and attend to basic hygiene and are now concerned over what impact the ongoing water ... Read more »
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Suburbs in the capital will go without water as a key water treatment plant will be closed for maintenance, and then a water rationing system which will see some suburbs getting ... Read more »
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At least 60% of water sources in the country are unsafe, leaving many families at risk of diarrhoea, UNICEF has said. In its latest update on the humanitarian situation in ... Read more »
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Zimbabweans face the prospect of longer power cuts following revelations by authorities that water levels at Kariba Dam, the country's source of hydro-power, remain below expected ... Read more »
