Along with fuel shortages, bread shortages, shortages of milk and other basic commodities, residents of the Zimbabwe capital Harare now have water shortages to contend with, according to newspaper reports on Saturday.
The state-controlled Herald newspaper reported that water taps in several suburbs of the city — both high and low-income areas — had run dry.
Some residents in the poor suburbs of Epworth and Kambuzuma were fetching water from streams and shallow wells, posing a health hazard, the paper said.
In Harare’s upmarket suburb of Borrowdale on Friday some
households were using buckets of water from wells for their needs, they said.
”More suburbs will be without water in the coming days,” the Herald warned.
The problem is being blamed on the lack of foreign currency to purchase water purifying chemicals.
Quoting the city’s mayor, Elias Mudzuri, the private Daily News suggested that water rationing could be in place by the end of the month. – Sapa-AFP