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Harare City Council to ration water to low density suburbs
31 Jan 2012 at 19:52hrs | Views
Harare City Council authorities say they are making sure high density townships get uninterrupted water supplies after a typhoid outbreak, leaving low density suburbs with reduced supplies.
Harare official Tendai Mahachi told reporters on Tuesday that well-to-do suburbs will get water about twice weekly. He said "the wealthy can afford to buy water" and cope with outages.
At least 900 cases of the bacterial disease have been treated this year in poor western suburbs of Harare, many having had no piped water for months and even years.
No deaths have been reported in the typhoid outbreak blamed on food contaminated by faeces from broken sewers during water shortages.
A cholera outbreak in 2009 blamed on the collapse of water, sanitation and prevention services killed more than 4 000 people.
Harare official Tendai Mahachi told reporters on Tuesday that well-to-do suburbs will get water about twice weekly. He said "the wealthy can afford to buy water" and cope with outages.
No deaths have been reported in the typhoid outbreak blamed on food contaminated by faeces from broken sewers during water shortages.
A cholera outbreak in 2009 blamed on the collapse of water, sanitation and prevention services killed more than 4 000 people.
Source - Sapa
