Due to poor water supplies over the years, Harare, like the rest of the country, relies heavily on boreholes sunk by humanitarian partners.
Most of the boreholes are reported to be in a dilapidated state since they were sunk at the height of the 2008-9 cholera outbreak that claimed around 4,000 lives. Typhoid cases have risen to 800 with Glen View suburb to the southwest of the capital registering 700.
Health authorities have attributed the rising cases of water borne diseases to Harare City Council’s failure to provide running water.
In an interview with The Zimbabwean on Monday, City of Harare Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Chiroto, admitted that the city fathers had failed to curb water borne diseases.
“We are currently fitting chlorinators on boreholes to sanitise the water we learnt that some of the water sources are contaminated,” he said.
Chiroto admitted Harare City Council’s failure to provide adequate water to ratepayers and said it was embarrassing that new cases of typhoid continued to be reported in the city.
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