A serious water crisis is set to plunge Harare into a health disaster as the city council announced yesterday that there will be no water for the better part of the weekend throughout the city due to a major pipe burst at the Morton Jaffray Waterworks.
City spokesperson Leslie Gwindi confirmed the burst at Morton Jaffray waterworks but said city engineers were working hard to try and curb the crisis that is likely to result in diseases.
“There was a major burst at one of our pipes,” Gwindi said.
“It is a major thing and we are working 24 hours to try and solve the problem. I wouldn’t say when water will be restored but our engineers are working tirelessly to make sure it is available within 24 hours,” he said.
Earlier in a statement, the local authority had said water would not be available from yesterday evening up to Sunday mid-day.
“People must therefore use the available water cleverly to avoid waterborne diseases,” said Gwindi.
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Harare was recently gripped with a serious typhoid outbreak that saw more than 1 000 people infected. This came after the cholera scourge that also gripped the city in 2008 affecting mainly residents from populous suburbs like Chitungwiza, Budiriro, Warren Park, Dzivarasekwa, Mabvuku and other areas that had gone for months without water.