KADOMA City Council has completed construction of a power line dedicated to its water pump station and purification plant in a move to ease water shortages that have plagued the town. Report by Blessed Mhlanga
Kadoma mayor Peter Matambo said the power line, which cost the local authority over $250 000, would ensure that water shortages caused by load-shedding would come to an end.
“Zesa has committed not to switch off the line. We completed it sometime in January and have already connected it to our pump station at Claw Dam and our water treatment plant at Blue Ranges. For the first time in years, we are actually going to be filling our reservoirs to capacity,” said Matambo.
Despite the uninterrupted power supplies to the water works, most of Kadoma has still not received portable water in years.
Areas in Rimuka, Rumwe and Mhunhumutapa rely on open water sources and boreholes sunk by donors at the height of the cholera outbreak in 2008.
Town engineer Blessing Musasira said the entire sewer and water reticulation system in those areas needed to be removed and replaced since they had all been blocked due to years of non usage.
“The galvanised pipes which form the water supply system in those areas have all blocked due to rust and they need to be changed.
Unless we do that, Kadoma will fast become a city of shallow wells and boreholes,” Musarira said. He said sewer pipes had also blocked after waste dried and clogged in the pipes because of water shortages.
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