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Bulawayo pipeline delay due to previous government: DPM Khuphe
11 Apr 2011 at 05:24hrs | Views
Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has blamed delays in construction of the Mtshabezi-Umzingwane Dam link water pipeline to poor planning by the previous government.
Khupe was speaking on Friday while inspecting the pipeline which is expected to ease water to the City of Bulawayo.
She said she was, however, pleased that there now appeared to be seriousness on the part of the Water Resources Development and Management ministry.
Khupe said people in Bulawayo have for long endured water shortages when "there is abundant water in Mtshabezi".
The DPM said the project, whose completion has been set for end of October, was a welcome relief to the people of Bulawayo.
Construction of the pipeline is seen as a short-term measure to counter the city's water woes.
The long-term measure is viewed as the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project ' first mooted in 1912 ' that would see a dam being built at the confluence of the Shangani and Gwayi rivers with a pipeline from the Zambezi River supplying the dam with water, which would then be channelled to Bulawayo.
Khupe was speaking on Friday while inspecting the pipeline which is expected to ease water to the City of Bulawayo.
She said she was, however, pleased that there now appeared to be seriousness on the part of the Water Resources Development and Management ministry.
Khupe said people in Bulawayo have for long endured water shortages when "there is abundant water in Mtshabezi".
The DPM said the project, whose completion has been set for end of October, was a welcome relief to the people of Bulawayo.
Construction of the pipeline is seen as a short-term measure to counter the city's water woes.
The long-term measure is viewed as the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project ' first mooted in 1912 ' that would see a dam being built at the confluence of the Shangani and Gwayi rivers with a pipeline from the Zambezi River supplying the dam with water, which would then be channelled to Bulawayo.
Source - Byo24News
