Zimbabwe Entering Water Crisis

5 years agoSun, 03 Mar 2019 09:48:55 GMT

Zimbabwe is now in water crisis as dam levels are down drastically due to a drought. The has resulted in more rationing of water impacting some services that need water critically such as medical services. Power generation at the country’s hydro-power stations has been affected.

Commenting on the crisis, Community Water Alliance (CWA) chairperson Hildaberta Rwambiwa said the water shortages could lead to a national disaster.

The majority of local authorities in the country are proposing water rationing and this is likely to cause a health disaster if the situation is not handled properly.

The crisis is manifesting through dwindling water levels in dams where local authorities abstract water for treatment before distributing to citizens
Besides dwindling water levels in dams; there is serious siltation in dams, very high water pollution levels, poor catchment management and wetlands depletion, poor quality of potable water, insufficient potable water, obsolete infrastructure, crisis of foreign currency availability for water treatment chemicals, poor funding for water projects, downgraded sewerage and water treatment plants.
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Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has indicated that catchment area averages are low this year compared to last year.

Catchment	2019	2018
Gwayi Catchment	62.1%	67.3%
Manyame Catchment	88.7%	92.1%
Mazowe Catchment	92%	90.4%
Mzingwane Catchment	66.8%	84.3%
Runde Catchment	56.7%	53.6%
Sanyati Catchment	72.3%	76.3%
Save Catchment	65.8%	78.3%

Zinwa’s corporate communications manager Marjorie Munyonga told the Daily News:

It follows that when we have depressed dam levels, there is bound to be scarcity in some areas. However, it is not all the users that will be affected as some dams still have water.
The major challenge that we have at the moment is not about the number of dams per se, but the limited rains that the country is receiving. The largely below normal rains have thus led to depressed inflows into the dams,

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