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Residents want Khami water

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Bulawayo residents, hard hit by a crippling shortage of portable water, have backed council plans to draw water from the heavily polluted Khami Dam on the city’s outskirts.

Bulawayo residents, hard hit by a crippling shortage of portable water, have backed council plans to draw water from the heavily polluted Khami Dam on the city’s outskirts.

By Fortune Moyo Staff Reporter

  Bulawayo Progressive Residents’ Association co-ordinator Roderick Fayayo told NewsDay yesterday that council planned to draw the water on condition that it is used for other purposes other than drinking.

  “Bulawayo needs all the drops of water that it can get,” he said.

  “We have faith in the local authority’s technical ability.

  “We are sure that whatever decision they take and make is meant to alleviate the situation of the residents of Bulawayo.”

  Recently, council’s director of Engineering Simela Dube revealed that water from Khami Dam was as good as that from Inyankuni Dam and could be used for other purposes besides consumption.

  Khami was the city’s first supply dam in 1927, before it was decommissioned in 1989 after the Southern Area Sewerage Treatment began emptying raw sewerage into the dam.