Residents resort to midnight queues for water

The current water crisis bedevilling Harare has resulted in some Chitungwiza residents queuing for the scarce commodity in the middle of the night.

This comes at a time when engineers have been hired from China to rehabilitate the capital's water infrastructure.

But Harare city water engineer Christopher Zvobgo yesterday said even the recent hiring of the Chinese experts was not the solution to the city's perennial water woes as it would only go as far as plugging leakages.

Zvobgo said the rehabilitation of the water pipes would only reduce leakages and slightly improve supplies from the current 300 to 600 megalitres a day against the city's normal daily requirement of 1 400 megalitres.