Speaking on the occasion to mark World Water Day on Monday, Nkomo said the intervention by Unicef had gone a long way in easing the financial strain faced by local authorities.
But he said there was need for local authorities to be able to sustain their water operations and called for the creation of separate water accounts so as to ensure that all revenue from water bills is invested back into water resources development and management.
It is only through separate water accounts that local authorities will be compelled to
use money from water tariffs only for water and sanitation development, he said.
The celebrations were commemorated under the theme Communicating water quality challenges and opportunities.
Zimbabwe has seven catchments namely uMuzingwane, Gwayi, Runde, Sanyati, Mazoe, Manyame and Save.
Decentralized celebrations at catchment level will allow enhanced stakeholder participation in the commemorations as well dissemination of information to a wider range of people. Water users will have permanent contact with their respective catchments and this is to benefit of water resources development and management, said the minister.
World Water Day was set aside by the United Nations in 1992 following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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