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City dam levels double as rainfall pattern holds
BULAWAYO residents are set to go for the entire year without experiencing the dreaded water-shedding regime with the city's supply dams continuing to receive significant inflows.The situation ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:48hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Even Lord Malvern failed to deliver water to Bulawayo
IN the old days, there was a special group of people called the Pharisees that did not particularly impress Jesus Christ.They were known for obsessively exhorting followers to be unstinting st...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:42hrs | 269 | by Bishop Lazarus
Bulawayo water woes far from over
BULAWAYO's water restoration strategy has suffered new setbacks in the form of power cuts and pipe bursts as the city's reticulation system readjusts to normal supplies of the precious liquid....Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:49hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water rationing to go
THE Bulawayo City Council will for the first time since January last year put aside its crippling water rationing scheme after its dams received enough water and pumping capacity to sustain the city u...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:39hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
BCC threatens to punish water abusers
BULAWAYO City Council has threatened to penalise residents who abuse water and exceed their daily limits.The warning came after the local authority partially eased the water-rationing schedule...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:17hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
'Water woes man-made'
A TRIP around the eastern suburbs in Bulawayo leaves one wondering if people still depend on council water.Almost every house has a water tank and at the gate it is inscribed boldly that "bore...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 18:29hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
'Zinwa won't hand over dams to Bulawayo'
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) says it is legally impossible to give Bulawayo the responsibility to build its own dams to solve the perennial water shortages.Zinwa made the rema...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Council to ease water-shedding
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is on Monday set to start easing the gruelling water shedding programme to about 72 hours in the next two weeks while making a roadmap towards normalising water supplies to...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:02hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Gweru revises water rationing
THE City of Gweru has said it will revisit its tight water-rationing regime following the delivery of three high lift pumps from South Africa which are expected to increase water supplies.In a...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:27hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council workers awarded 150% pay increase
City of Bulawayo workers returned to work on Tuesday after calling off their week-long strike over poor pay.The strike had crippled council services with uncollected garbage piling up around t...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 11:16hrs | 2272 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC rails govt for 'crippling service delivery'
THE MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has blamed the central government for crippling service delivery in Bulawayo by recalling its councillors.This was revealed by MDC Alliance Bulawayo spokesperson ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Time to make Matabeleland Zambezi water project a reality
For the last three decades or so, Zimbabwe's largest cities have faced water challenges due to due to a combination of poor rains, droughtand mismanagement. The situation in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's s...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:51hrs | 662 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
Gweru dams at full capacity
THE water levels at Gweru City Council's four supply dams are at full capacity following heavy rains that pounded most parts of the midlands province in the last few weeks.In a statement yeste...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:31hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suburbs still face water problems despite rains
SEVERAL Bulawayo houses built on high ground are yet to receive tap water despite council easing its water rationing regime following heavy rains experienced across the country since November, a surve...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:27hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suburbs still face water problems despite rains
SEVERAL Bulawayo houses built on high ground are yet to receive tap water despite council easing its water rationing regime following heavy rains experienced across the country since November, a surve...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:19hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo water crisis man-made'
A local water expert has said with proper management systems in place, Bulawayo could have easily averted the water crisis bedevilling the city.Bulawayo is going through one of the worst water...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis ravages Bulawayo
Women carry the burden of collecting water for households...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1027 | by Brezhnev Malaba
Gweru dam levels increase
THE water levels at Gweru City Council supply dams Gwenoro and Whitewaters have significantly increased following good rains.This has seen taps that have been dry for several weeks now being o...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:24hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents told to brace for tighter water rationing
GWERU residents have been told to brace for more water rationing amid indications that water in the city's three supply dams is fast dwindling at a time when the pumping capacity has been reduced to 6...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:20hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Water situation gets dire
GWERU'S water situation has worsened amid reports that the main water supplier, Gwenoro Dam, is now below 15% with a pumping capacity at 37 megalitres per day, Southern Eye has established.In ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents protest over water
SOME Bulawayo residents on Saturday staged a protest in Mpopoma high-density suburb after failing to access water from a council-owned youth centre.Bulawayo is facing its worst water crisis in...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1467 | by Staff reporter
Water rationing hours to be reduced
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is now working 24 hours a day on the Epping Forest Borehole Project in Nyamandlovu, a move meant to ease water problems in Bulawayo by end of next month....Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | 833 | 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 | 1857 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo water charges up by 2 000%
THE Bulawayo City Council could be forced to increase its water charges after the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) increased the tariffs for the Mtshabezi Dam raw water by close to 2 000 perc...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo Council guilty of Luveve water crisis'
Since the outbreak of the waterborne disease in Luveve Old and New that has so far claimed 12 lives, while over a thousand have been hospitalized, Bulawayo City Council management have been busy with ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1222 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Adequate raw water is the answer to Bulawayo water woes: MDC
The MDC Alliance has said the construction of raw water sources around Bulawayo will be the major solution to the perennial water crisis that the city is facing.MDC A Secretary for local Gover...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 155 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa's MDC speaks on the killer disease that struck Bulawayo
MDC Alliance has urged the Mayor of Bulawayo His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni to engage the residents and all stakeholders in Bulawayo in order to come up with a workable solution to the crisis that ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 14:35hrs | 5253 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans must desist from negativity before it spreads like a disease
LAST week, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, announced the introduction of a foreign exchange auction trading system with effect from June 23, 2020, which effectively means th...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:05hrs | 1255 | by Toby Sithole
Zimbabweans must desist from negativity before it spreads like a disease
LAST week, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, announced the introduction of a foreign exchange auction trading system with effect from June 23, 2020, which effectively means th...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 295 | by Toby Sithole
BCC refills wells after diarrhoea outbreak
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is refilling all water wells dug by residents to augment supplies delivered by the local authority following the death of six residents from a diarrhoea outbreak in Luv...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
BCC defends water quality
TWELVE people were on Tuesday admitted to Mpilo Central Hospital suffering from diarrhoea as Bulawayo City Council (BCC) denied that the six children who died of diarrhoea in Luveve high-density subur...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:29hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents pursue independent water tests
BULAWAYO residents have engaged private laboratories to run independent tests on the city's water after five children reportedly succumbed to diarrhoea due to contaminated water being pumped to Luveve...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Arrogant negligence killing our people in MDC-A led Bulawayo Council
For the first time in so many years Bulawayo finds it's self being fed contaminated water by the city fathers, something we used to read about from other cities and have always commended the Bulawayo ...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1550 | by Brian Ncube
Residents urged to boil borehole water
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni has urged residents to boil borehole water before consumption to reduce incidences of waterborne ailments following the death of three children from diarrhoea complication...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
For how long can Mnangagwa cling on to power?
It honestly did not have to come to this. Having suffered under Robert Mugabe's cruel pharaonic rule for the biblical 40 years, Zimbabweans desperately deserved a rescue. This explained their euphoria...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1200 | by Siphosami Malunga
3 die from 'Council water'
THREE children in Bulawayo's Luveve suburb have reportedly died from diarrhoea complications with their families alleging that it was linked to dirty and unsafe water pumped by the city council....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:43hrs | 1123 | by Staff reporter
'Khami Dam sewage water unfit for Bulawayo consumption'
DESCENDANT of the Ndebele monarch, King Lobengula, Prince Peter Zwide Khumalo yesterday slammed plans by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to pump the heavily-polluted Khami Dam water into households to all...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Water shedding extended to CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council will extend water rationing to industrial areas and the Central Business District (CBD) as council continues to battle one of the worst water crises ever to be experienced in...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:21hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Major dams water levels continue to decline
WATER levels in the country's major dams continue to decline following the conclusion of the rainy season which left the national dam average at 49 percent in May from 51,2 percent in April. B...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
South Africa rationing diesel
South Africa has implemented diesel rationing, as demand recovered more quickly than expected after a lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus was eased.More than half of South Africa's r...Published: 26 May 2020 at 21:38hrs | 2265 | by Bloomberg
Bulawayo records surge in diarrhoea cases
THERE are concerns over the quality of Bulawayo water as the city recorded an upsurge in diarrhoeal cases from 473 registered between July and September 2019 to 359 recorded in January 2020.In...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
No water crisis in Bulawayo, says Engineers
INDEPENDENT engineers hired by government to assess the water situation in Bulawayo have disputed council position that the city was facing an acute water crisis, arguing instead that the city lacked ...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1618 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo extends water-shedding to 144 hours
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has decommissioned Lower Ncema Dam after water level reached an all-time low of 6,49%, bringing the number of decommissioned dams to three, a move that has forced the c...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:48hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to go without water for 144 hours
The Bulawayo City Council has announced that it is decommissioning the Lower Ncema Dam with effect from Friday the 15th of May 2020.The decommissioning has been necessitated by lower water lev...Published: 15 May 2020 at 11:05hrs | 1303 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nkulumane residents say yet to receive bower water deliveries
RESIDENTS of Bulawayo's Nkulumane high-density suburb have reportedly not been receiving bowser water deliveries from the city council since the 120-hour water-rationing schedule came into force three...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:36hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
BCC cuts water supply to eastern suburbs
THE water situation in Bulawayo's eastern suburbs has further deteriorated after the local authority cut supplies following a pipe burst 5km from the Fernhill reservoir.The city council recent...Published: 06 May 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1132 | by Staff reporter
Half of Bulawayo water lost before reaching residents
BULAWAYO is losing almost half of its water along its antiquated piping system before it reaches end users, further exacerbating the city's water availability which has already seen most suburbs going...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:02hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Give BCC bulk water rights, residents say
RESIDENTS have appealed to the Harare government to give Bulawayo City Council (BCC) bulk water rights to alleviate the water crisis rocking the city. Human rights groups, Better Bulawayo Init...Published: 01 May 2020 at 08:21hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents petition Mnangagwa as water woes persist
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to treat Bulawayo's dire water situation with the urgency it deserves.The call from the residents...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 10:39hrs | 2256 | by Staff reporter
Residents sleeping in water queues
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo's Pumula South, Old Magwegwe and Emganwini high-density suburbs are reportedly sleeping in queues at boreholes and bowser delivery points as the water crisis in the city worsens....Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 08:34hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
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