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Fears of another Bulawayo diarrhoea outbreak
BULAWAYO residents have expressed fear that Zimbabwe's second largest city could be hit by another outbreak of diarrhoea due to the municipality's failure to attend to sewer blockages.Speaking...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 16:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Pressure over Bulawayo water crisis shakes govt
GOVERNMENT has resumed work at the Bulawayo to Gwayi-Shangani Dam pipeline following pressure from Bulawayo residents, the Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) and the Bulawayo Water Action ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Bulawayo residents bitter over water-shedding removal delay
BULAWAYO residents have complained over continued water-shedding even after the dams that feed the city's water reservoirs recorded significant inflows following heavy rains.Water cuts have co...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
National events postponed after Cyclone Idai
SEVERAL national and international events have been put on ice to allow the mourning of victims of the recent Cyclone Idai which ravaged most parts in Eastern Zimbabwe where it killed more than 300 pe...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to visit Beitbridge
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon visit Beitbridge to assess the state of irrigation schemes and engage local farmers on the challenges affecting production, a Government official said yesterday....Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 06:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR commemorates world water day
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) calls on government to take concrete action to preserve wetlands that play an important role in ensuring that all people living in the country have access to w...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare's water woes continue
World Water Day is celebrated annually on March 22nd. This year's theme was "Why Waste Water?"It was in support of Sustainable Development Goal 6.3 which aims to improve water quality by reduc...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Water, a top priority human right
A water-wise Good Samaritan has been offering clean water for free to strangers along Samora Machel Avenue West in the vicinities of Belvedere's Marimba shopping centre for decades now. Possibly that ...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 07:28hrs | 4 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Interrogating pre-paid water metering as a policy option
With the dawn of the World Water Day on 22 March 2015 I felt compelled to interrogate pre-paid water metering as a policy option. To do justice to this policy discourse, I will try to weigh merits an...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Timothy Chitambure
World Water Day - Much ado about nothing for Zimbabwean women
Saturday 22March 2014 was World Water Day. As global efforts are being made to amplify women's voices in improving water supply networks, Zimbabwe continues to face multiple challenges in the wate...Published: 23 Mar 2014 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Lorraine Blondie Sibanda
Bulawayo seeks twinning arrangement with Chinese City of Siping
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has launched twinning arrangement discussions with City of Siping in China - in a move that would largely centre on investment on water infrastructure in Bulawayo....Published: 08 Apr 2013 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sipepa Nkomo hospitalised after eating fish
PRIME MINISTER Dr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday cancelled a tour of the Gwayi-Shangani dam in Matabeleland North after Water Resources Development minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo was hospitalised....Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Why did you run away to join the MDC' asks Mugabe as MDC-T official showers praise on him
Water Resources, Development and Management Minister Simon Sipepa Nkomo (MDC-T) yesterday praised President Mugabe for his unparalleled leadership qualities. Minister Nkomo, whose ministry h...Published: 23 Mar 2012 at 23:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare water unsafe for human consumption
A University of Zimbabwe researcher, Professor Chris Magadza, has said treated water supplied to Harare residents does not meet minimum World Health Organisation standards....Published: 30 Mar 2011 at 09:25hrs | 4 | by Byo24News
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