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Global Water Drillers, which scooped the Company of the Year 2022, Diamond Winner Award at the Megafest Southern Region Awards held recently, is targeting to improve water security and agricultural yields in Zimbabwe through drilling boreholes countrywide.

This comes as the Government intends to drill about 35 000 boreholes in 35 000 villages countrywide according to the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Resettlement, Dr Anxious Masuka.

Global Water Drillers specialises in providing water solutions and offers geological water surveys, borehole drilling, capacity testing, pump installation, borehole flushing and borehole deepening, among other services.

“This year alone we’ve done more than 1 000 boreholes especially in the Southern and Mashonaland provinces as we contribute towards fighting climate change using our credit facility.

“Our target is to have about 80 percent of Zimbabweans having boreholes in the next few years,” said Noxolo Sibanda, Global Water Drillers, head of communication and marketing.

The United Nations estimates that at the current rates of population progress, 1,6 billion people will lack safely managed drinking water, 2,8 billion people will lack safely managed sanitation and 1,9 billion people will lack basic hand hygiene facilities in 2030.

“As Global Water Drillers we’re honoured to receive the Company of the Year 2022, Diamond Winner Award. We also appreciate Megafest for the networking opportunities and business that we’ve received as a result of this recognition.”

Megafest is an organisation that seeks to reward the courage, leadership and entrepreneurial creativity of Zimbabwe’s most brilliant business people who play a critical role in raising the profile of professionals in the business.

Global Water Drillers’ sister company, Inotho Farm Solutions, is providing greenhouse construction and supplies. Inotho Farm Solutions is also dedicated to farm improvements using the latest innovation to produce high-quality yields.

“We provide water first and encourage those households to also install a greenhouse and we provide free agronomy services. We also help those farmers to find markets for their crops, which is a challenge for most small-scale farmers,” said Ms Sibanda.

She said the company seeks to promote and support Sustainable Development Goal (SDG17) through smart farming solutions nationwide to eliminate hunger in Zimbabwe and Africa.