Residents fetch water from Mukuvisi river

A health time bomb is ticking in Glen Norah and Hopley high density suburbs where residents are fetching water from Mukuvisi River.
In the absence of clean, fresh and portable water from the Harare City Council, Glen Norah and Hopley residents have resorted to fetching water, bath and do laundry in the heavily polluted Mukuvisi river. 
A few metres from the Simon Mazorodze round-about popularly known as 'Kumbudzi,' women doing laundry have become a common sight.
Although it is common knowledge that the Mukuvisi River is choking with pollutants, women who spoke to the ZBC News said all they want is running water to do their household chores. 
"We have no other source of water, we have to wash here, we don't care about diseases and we shall react when there is an outbreak," said one Glen Norah resident.
Most of the wells which were sunk in Hopley are drying up and the boreholes are now malfunctioning. 
Due to the acute water shortages, mothers are now forced to ignore the sensitivity of their children's skin as they bath them with the polluted water.

Mukuvisi River from its source around Cleveland Dam on the eastern part of the city cuts through the

Msasa industrial area, moves close to the city and snakes its way via the Graniteside and Mbare industrial sites. The river receives more filthy from heavy industrial wastes between Highfield and Waterfalls on its way to the larger Manyame River.