High Court judge, Justice David Mangota slammed ZINWA for increasing raw water tariffs for Hippo Valley and Triangle Estates. In violation of existing water supply agreements, ZINWA hiked the tariffs by 27% without consultation.
Justice Mangota is his judgment said:
The respondent violated the agreements which defined its relationship with the applicants (Hippo and Triangle) in a most shameful manner.
…There is no doubt that the respondent acted irrationally, unfairly and unreasonably when it increased the water tariff for the applicants by a margin of 27 percent. It clutched on straws to prop up a defenceless situation. It failed, in a dismal way, to justify its conduct.
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