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Bulawayo Mayor appeals to God amid worsening water crisis
Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart has made an impassioned plea to God for rain as the city grapples with an escalating water crisis that he says is beyond the control of the Bulawayo City Council (BCC). In...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 10:13hrs | 782 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo City Council stops water supply to western suburbs
The Bulawayo City Council has suspended water supply to Western Suburbs supplied by the Magwegwe Reservoir and other areas until Sunday due to scheduled maintenance.The affected areas include ...Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 16:54hrs | 964 | by Staff reporter
Nkulumane, Nketa and Emganwini will go without water from 2 - 4 February
The suburbs of Nkulumane, Nketa and Emganwini in Bulawayo will go without water due to planned maintenance work on the 675m pipe line from Criterion Reservoir to Magwegwe Reservoir at United Refinerie...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dam levels critically low
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said water levels at its supply dams that are 52 percent full as well as a drastic drop in supplies from Epping Forest due to vandalism of infrastructure have worsened ...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo tightens water rationing
BULAWAYO residents will now go for two days a week without water supplies after the local authority from yesterday effected a 48-hour water shedding schedule. The local authority has further p...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
48-hour water cuts in Bulawayo after mainline pipe burst
A MAJOR water pipeline burst in Esigodini has forced Bulawayo City Council to announce an emergency week-long 48-hour water shedding regime starting today, affecting all suburbs and surrounding areas ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zesa restores power at Bulawayo water plant
Power utility Zesa says it has rectified the power blackouts that affected pumping of water at Bulawayo's Criterion Plant.The Bulawayo City Council had claimed that it was failing to pump adeq...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Water supplies restored in Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has restored water supplies in the city after residents had to endure two days without the precious liquid due to a power outage which affected the water treatment work...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo seeks US$500m for water pipes upgrades
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) requires about half a billion United States dollars to rehabilitate, upgrade or replace the city's ageing water reticulation infrastructure and do away with frequent pipe b...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC intervenes in United Refineries hitch
UNITED Refineries Limited (URL) is expected to resume operations at its factory on Monday following interventions by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to solve water supply challenges that forced the co...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Residents jostle for water in Magwegwe
CHAOTIC scenes were witnessed at Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s Magwegwe reservoir as scores of thirsty residents stampeded to fetch treated water which gushed out of the 140-megalitre overnight storag...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
No water for all Bulawayo suburbs
FOR the first time in many years, all suburbs in Bulawayo will at the same time go without tapped water until further notice, a situation that will compound water woes among the city's nearly one mill...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis puts residents' health at risk in Bulawayo
"YOU'LL get water when it's available," Bulawayo City Council officials loosely told residents recently after struggling to stick to the six-day water shedding schedule put in place to manage the dwin...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:59hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
PHOTOS: Update on the ongoing works at Criterion Reservoir
Criterion Reservoir - Treatment is still at minimal capacity. All areas supplied by Magwegwe Reservoir have been closed off as Reservoir is now at Critical stage....Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 05:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Desperation and panic grips Bulawayo residents
DESPERATION and panic have hit Bulawayo as most suburbs have gone without water for eight days following major refurbishment works at the city's reservoirs with residents accusing council of poor plan...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
48-hour water cuts are back in Bulawayo
Reporters THE Bulawayo City Council has with immediate effect re-introduced a 48-hour water shedding schedule in all suburbs amid revelations the city is among areas that will be hit by severe water s...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water cuts loom as Bulawayo battles to normalise reservoir levels
NKETA and Nkulumane residents have been warned to brace for severe water cuts as Bulawayo City Council (BCC) battles to normalise the Magwegwe reservoir level.The water-shedding, which began o...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC introduces temporary water shedding
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has introduced temporary water shedding in some suburbs to ease a two-day water crisis due to a fault at Fern Hill Pump station.Council has since decided to...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New Year Message by his Worship the Mayor of Bulawayo, Councillor Martin M Moyo
The just ended year has been a remarkable year for the City of Bulawayo, as we commemorated our 120th Anniversary Celebrations and successfully hosted the African Union Sports Council Region Five Unde...Published: 31 Dec 2014 at 18:00hrs | 8 | by Mayor of Bulawayo, Councillor Martin M Moyo
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