The cash strapped Marondera council is left with one week’s supply of chlorine, an essential chemical used in treating water.Speaking during a tour of Marondera Municipality waterworks by the newly-appointed Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister Aplonia Munzverengi on Thursday, town engineer Christopher Chineka disclosed that a crisis was looming as they were failing to source chlorine due to foreign currency shortages.
Marondera has four dams that supply water to the town’s estimated 65 000 residents, but council has been rationing the precious liquid as the current supplies were failing to sustain the growing population
Said Chineka:
The current position is that by next week, we will not be having any stocks.The water treatment pond was installed in 1972 and has a capacity of 13 million mega litres. Given the number of residents in the town, we need about 27 million mega litres of water per day
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