Tsvangirai pledged to channel part of the government’s $50 million borehole rehabilitation programme towards the alleviation of the water crisis. Some 7,500 boreholes will be drilled countrywide under the programme.
Environment Africa has noted that billions of gallons of water flow into the Indian Ocean each year while millions of people, especially peasant farmers, hardly have enough to drink.
“One wonders why we have no water in the so-called drought-hit areas when we have so much water around us,” it said in a recent report.