This follows the government’s official inheritance of the project from the contractor, the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT).
In an interview with The Zimbabwean this week, the Minister of Water Resources and Development Samuel Sipepa Nkomo said the government could not immediately inherit the project’s contractors from the then Dumiso Dabengwa-led MZWT because the State Procurement Board (SPB) needed to scrutinise the takeover deal.
Nkomo said the government had adjusted the dam’s construction plan to include a minihydro power station.
“We are also planning to lower the dam wall to avoid water from the dam flooding the Victoria Falls/ Bulawayo highway. Last month we had a team of engineers from China who were looking into all these issues,” said Nkomo.
The minister also revealed that the Mtshabezi pipeline construction which will link the Mtshabezi and Umzingwane dams is now 70 per cent complete.
The project is seen as a short term measure to address the city’s perennial water shortages.
Post published in: Zimbabwe News