The Gweru City Council is planning to start water rationing in the municipality especially the western suburbs. Gweru mayor, Josiah Makombe said this move has been necessitated by the low pumping capacity at Gwenhoro dam, the major water supplier for the city. Some parts of Gweru have been receiving intermittent water supplies and the situation, therefore, set worsen. During a press briefing last week, Mkombe said
Our engineering department is working on modalities and very soon we will introduce water shedding to ensure that all suburbs receive water.
Once we introduce this rationing scheme, it means suburbs will get water on different days until we normalise supplies to all parts of the city. We have some suburbs like Mkoba 15 and 19, which have gone for nine to 10 years without getting tap water, hence the need to share what is there.
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