Harare City Council says that it would introduce water-rationing for the northern suburbs such as Borrowdale.
The water cuts will be for 72 hours a week and are a response to the city’s deteriorating pumping capacity.
This was revealed by acting Harare water director Richard Kunyadini while responding to Mabvuku councillor Fibion Kufahakutizvi. Said Kunyadini:
This year, we might be forced to ration water supplies going forward. At the moment, Prince Edward plant is operating at two days a week. This is because of the state of the raw water which has depleted.
We have completed the refurbishment of Avondale treatment plant and we hope to use that station to pump to the northern suburbs.
We have also started a programme to reduce water supply to areas like Glen View and Glen Norah, at least switching them off for two to three days so that we could pump to areas like Mabvuku and Tafara.