The Bulawayo Progressive Residents’ Association (BPRA) has engaged the Bulawayo City Council to put in place measures to avert a possible health disaster due to the water crisis.
Report by Staff Reporter Bulawayo is experiencing a critical water shortage with residents going for four days or more without the precious liquid.
In an interview with NewsDay yesterday, BPRA co-ordinator Rodrick Fayayo said they had written to the local authority urging city fathers to be prepared for such an eventuality.
“We have written to the local authority proposing that an additional subcommittee to look into the preparedness of a possible disease outbreak is put in place,” he said.
“The committee should include the health department of the local authority and other relevant stakeholders.”
The shortage of water is set to worsen in the country’s second largest city, with council revealing yesterday that water levels at Criterion Reservoir, the man water storage facility, were extremely low.
The local authority said a power fault affecting Ncema Water works, which occurred at 4pm on Tuesday, had prevented pumping of water to Criterion and Tuli Hill.
Tuli Hill Reservoir supplies all the eastern suburbs.
